Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 65
... hope , and deeply depressed when his hopes were disap- pointed . This is not the character of a hero ; but it may naturally imply something more generally wel- come , a soft and civil companion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others ...
... hope , and deeply depressed when his hopes were disap- pointed . This is not the character of a hero ; but it may naturally imply something more generally wel- come , a soft and civil companion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others ...
Page 118
... hope you will contribute all you can to an extension of that mercy , which the gentlemen of the jury have been pleased to shew Mr. Merchant , who ( allowing facts as sworn against us by the evidence ) has led us into this our calamity ...
... hope you will contribute all you can to an extension of that mercy , which the gentlemen of the jury have been pleased to shew Mr. Merchant , who ( allowing facts as sworn against us by the evidence ) has led us into this our calamity ...
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... hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name , if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure than his life . His Ode on Spring has something poetical , both in the language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant ...
... hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name , if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure than his life . His Ode on Spring has something poetical , both in the language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant ...
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