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... last night of the year , have fomething in them too fcholaftic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose ...
... last night of the year , have fomething in them too fcholaftic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose ...
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... last hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ; when the condemned man , Who , when he opes his eyes , must shut them then Again by death , although fad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little fleep , Thou at this midnight feest me . IT ...
... last hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ; when the condemned man , Who , when he opes his eyes , must shut them then Again by death , although fad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little fleep , Thou at this midnight feest me . IT ...
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... last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort compofitions , written fome as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and fome as they were called forth by different occasions ; with ...
... last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort compofitions , written fome as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and fome as they were called forth by different occasions ; with ...
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... last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not la- ment to find the poet conclude with lines like thefe ! - But ftop , my Muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegafus clofely in , Which does to rage begin- ' Tis an unruly and a ...
... last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not la- ment to find the poet conclude with lines like thefe ! - But ftop , my Muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegafus clofely in , Which does to rage begin- ' Tis an unruly and a ...
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Samuel Johnson. of purfuing his thoughts to the last ramifica- tions , by which he lofes the grandeur of ge- nerality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty , and by claiming dignity becomes ...
Samuel Johnson. of purfuing his thoughts to the last ramifica- tions , by which he lofes the grandeur of ge- nerality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty , and by claiming dignity becomes ...
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