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Page 7
... death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley ...
... death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley ...
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... death of mine , 1 fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
... death of mine , 1 fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
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Samuel Johnson. Death , a Voyage . No family E'èr rigg'd a soul for Heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might ... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's ...
Samuel Johnson. Death , a Voyage . No family E'èr rigg'd a soul for Heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might ... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's ...
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... . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are mu- sical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon 4 * DENHAM . 51.
... . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are mu- sical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon 4 * DENHAM . 51.
Page 54
... death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he afterwards re- frained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has perhaps ...
... death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he afterwards re- frained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has perhaps ...
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