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Page 36
... favour of the rights and liberties of the people , pretended to be dead , and had a public funeral procession . The King applauded his policy in escaping the punish ment of death , by a seasonable show of dying . " - Cunningham's ...
... favour of the rights and liberties of the people , pretended to be dead , and had a public funeral procession . The King applauded his policy in escaping the punish ment of death , by a seasonable show of dying . " - Cunningham's ...
Page 40
... favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he himself could think his due , from evil tongues in evil days , was that reverential silence which was generously preserved . But it cannot be inferred ...
... favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he himself could think his due , from evil tongues in evil days , was that reverential silence which was generously preserved . But it cannot be inferred ...
Page 48
... favour , and therefore may se- curely resume his human rank . After the scheme and fabric of the poem , must be considered its component parts , the sen- timents and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or ...
... favour , and therefore may se- curely resume his human rank . After the scheme and fabric of the poem , must be considered its component parts , the sen- timents and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or ...
Page 49
... favour is forefeit- ed by sin , and how hope of pardon may be ob- tained by penitence and prayer . A state of in- nocence we can only conceive , if indeed , in our present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but under Mr. Henry ...
... favour is forefeit- ed by sin , and how hope of pardon may be ob- tained by penitence and prayer . A state of in- nocence we can only conceive , if indeed , in our present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but under Mr. Henry ...
Page 53
... favour gained , no exchange of genious critic , " seems to be verse only to the eye . ' praise , nor solicitation of support . His great Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but Eng- works were performed under discountenance , lish poetry ...
... favour gained , no exchange of genious critic , " seems to be verse only to the eye . ' praise , nor solicitation of support . His great Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but Eng- works were performed under discountenance , lish poetry ...
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