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... subject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence these take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
... subject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence these take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
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... subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the ...
... subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the ...
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... subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters ñame ; and England , during the ...
... subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters ñame ; and England , during the ...
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... subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copiousness of knowledge , that fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind ; yet it is not likely that he always rejected a commodious idea merely because another had ...
... subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copiousness of knowledge , that fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind ; yet it is not likely that he always rejected a commodious idea merely because another had ...
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... subject , ra- ther than the care of the writer , that the diction of his heroic poem is lefs familiar than that of his flightest writings . He has given not the fame numbers , but the fame diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem ...
... subject , ra- ther than the care of the writer , that the diction of his heroic poem is lefs familiar than that of his flightest writings . He has given not the fame numbers , but the fame diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem ...
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