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... hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The World and a Clock . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face Through all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great Nature's well - set clock in ...
... hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The World and a Clock . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face Through all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great Nature's well - set clock in ...
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... Hand Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; ' Twill tear and blow up all within . Like a grenado shot into a magazin . Then shall love keep the ashes , and torn parts , Of both our broken ...
... Hand Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; ' Twill tear and blow up all within . Like a grenado shot into a magazin . Then shall love keep the ashes , and torn parts , Of both our broken ...
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... hand : And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double ...
... hand : And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double ...
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... hand in hand do decently advance , And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's ...
... hand in hand do decently advance , And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's ...
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... hand . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would not have written it , had it not mingled with his own thoughts , so as that he did not perceive himself taking it from another : Although I ...
... hand . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would not have written it , had it not mingled with his own thoughts , so as that he did not perceive himself taking it from another : Although I ...
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