Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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... hope , now lead to dangerous credulity , as when in the times of Tasso , Shakspeare and even Milton , witches and wizards , spectres and fairies , were nearly as important subjects of faith as the most serious doctrines of religion ...
... hope , now lead to dangerous credulity , as when in the times of Tasso , Shakspeare and even Milton , witches and wizards , spectres and fairies , were nearly as important subjects of faith as the most serious doctrines of religion ...
Page 399
... hope ? O death , death ! where would be thy sting , or where These awful tremblings , which thy coming stirs In my too conscious breast , might I aspire To hope my judge would greet me with that look NUMBER XIX . Tartaream intendit ...
... hope ? O death , death ! where would be thy sting , or where These awful tremblings , which thy coming stirs In my too conscious breast , might I aspire To hope my judge would greet me with that look NUMBER XIX . Tartaream intendit ...
Page 423
... hope Exil❜d from heav'n we left our courage there , Or lost it in our fall , or that hell's fires Have parch'd and wither'd our shrunk sinews up ? Delusive hope ! the warrior's nerve is strung By exercise , by pain , by glorious toil ...
... hope Exil❜d from heav'n we left our courage there , Or lost it in our fall , or that hell's fires Have parch'd and wither'd our shrunk sinews up ? Delusive hope ! the warrior's nerve is strung By exercise , by pain , by glorious toil ...
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