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Page 43
... persons were living at Holloway , about the year 1734 , and at that time possessed such a degree of health and strength as enabled them on Sundays and prayer - days to walk a mile up a steep two at the time of her death . Their ...
... persons were living at Holloway , about the year 1734 , and at that time possessed such a degree of health and strength as enabled them on Sundays and prayer - days to walk a mile up a steep two at the time of her death . Their ...
Page 47
... persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem , all other greatness shrinks away . The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human be- ings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose ...
... persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem , all other greatness shrinks away . The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human be- ings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose ...
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... persons of the dra- ma ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is un- doubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the portress of hell ; but when they stop the ...
... persons of the dra- ma ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is un- doubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the portress of hell ; but when they stop the ...
Page 54
... person who was well acquainted with him , to this effect ; viz . that he was a conveyancing lawyer , and a bencher of the Inner Temple , and had raised him- self from a low beginning to very great eminence in that profession ; that he ...
... person who was well acquainted with him , to this effect ; viz . that he was a conveyancing lawyer , and a bencher of the Inner Temple , and had raised him- self from a low beginning to very great eminence in that profession ; that he ...
Page 55
... person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke always seemed to hearken to him with attention enough ; and after some time under- took to recommend his pretensions to his Majes- ty . Mr ...
... person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke always seemed to hearken to him with attention enough ; and after some time under- took to recommend his pretensions to his Majes- ty . Mr ...
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