The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher , Death ; and God adore . What future bliss , He gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast ...
... Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher , Death ; and God adore . What future bliss , He gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast ...
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... hope for eminence from the here- sies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by dis- appointment upon consolatory expedients , are will- ing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
... hope for eminence from the here- sies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by dis- appointment upon consolatory expedients , are will- ing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
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... hope flattered , or prosperity delighted , often courted her to partake their pleasures . The princess and her brother commonly met in the evening in a private summer - house on the bank of the Nile , and related to each other the oc ...
... hope flattered , or prosperity delighted , often courted her to partake their pleasures . The princess and her brother commonly met in the evening in a private summer - house on the bank of the Nile , and related to each other the oc ...
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