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Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...would dance : yet for a dance they seem'd Somewhat extravagant, and wild ; perhaps For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again...terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urged home ; Such as we might perceive amused them all, And stumbled many : who receives them right,...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...dance ; yet for a dance they seem'd 615 Somewhat extravagant and wild ; perhaps For joy- of offer'd peace : But I suppose If our proposals once again...result. To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood : 620 Leader ! the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urged home...
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Comedy of the Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 172 pages
...22. My staff understands me. Johnson notes that Milton has used the same quibble in PL vi. 625 : " To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood : Leader,...weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urg'd home ; Such as we might perceive amus'd them all, And stumbled many : who receives them right Had need from...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose, 3 o If our proposals once again were heard, We should...' Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, 1 For ' most exceptionable ' the first edition has ' silliest.' a 6. 607-629. Of hard contents, and...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 238 pages
...dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose, 30 If our proposals once again were heard, We should...' Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight. 1 For ' most exceptionable ' the first edition has ' silliest.' » 6. 607-629. Of hard contents, and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: English and Latin, Volume 1

John Milton - 1892 - 414 pages
...would dance ; yet for a dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild ; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose, If our proposals once again...result.' " To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood : 620 ' Leader ! the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urged...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1892 - 654 pages
...would dance. Yet for a dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose, If our proposals once again...were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.' "'0 friends, why come not on these victors proud? Erewhile they fierce were coming; and, when we, 610...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Books

John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...would dance. Yet for a dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild ; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose If our proposals once again were...terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force, urged home, 622 Such as we might perceive amused them all, And stumbled many. Who receives them right...
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David Garrick

Joseph Knight - 1894 - 366 pages
...the language of Milton, not, it is hoped, too irreverently used, the defenders of order might say, " The terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents and full of force, urged home, Such as we might perceive amused them all And stumbled many." The victory was complete...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1897 - 654 pages
...We should compel them to a quick result.' " To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood : — 620 ' Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of foree urged home, Such as we might pereeive amused them all, And stumbled many. Who receives them right...
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