Prose and PoetryR. Hart-Davis, 1950 - 961 Seiten Over sixty-five representative selections. |
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... hope , even when that hope is likely to deceive us , may be sometimes useful ; but to lull our faculties in a lethargy , is poor and despicable . Vices and errors are differently modified , according to the state of the minds to which ...
... hope , even when that hope is likely to deceive us , may be sometimes useful ; but to lull our faculties in a lethargy , is poor and despicable . Vices and errors are differently modified , according to the state of the minds to which ...
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... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
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... Hope , shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , 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 ...
... Hope , shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , 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 ...
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Chronological Table | 8 |
London a Poem | 25 |
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage | 41 |
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