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Page 11
... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , am Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , am Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
Page 27
... hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , ” says I take to be my por- wind tion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to aftertimes , as they should not ...
... hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , ” says I take to be my por- wind tion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to aftertimes , as they should not ...
Page 31
... exceeding all hope of human attainment ; and having , by ex- cessive praises , been confirmed in great con- fidence of himself , though he probably had not Adam unparadised : The angel Gabriel , either descending or MILTON . 31.
... exceeding all hope of human attainment ; and having , by ex- cessive praises , been confirmed in great con- fidence of himself , though he probably had not Adam unparadised : The angel Gabriel , either descending or MILTON . 31.
Page 34
... Hope . Charity . Lucifer . Adam . Eve . Conscience . Mutes . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Faith , Hope , Charity . Death . PARADISE LOST . The Persons . his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is ...
... Hope . Charity . Lucifer . Adam . Eve . Conscience . Mutes . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Faith , Hope , Charity . Death . PARADISE LOST . The Persons . his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is ...
Page 35
... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough ...
... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough ...
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