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A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo 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 ...
A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo 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 ...
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... and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All 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 ...
... and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All 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 ...
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But let us come to the scenery of the Fifth Act . Caton appears first upon the scene , sitting in a thoughtful pos- c ture ; in his hand Plato's treatise on the Immortality of t the Soul , a drawn sword on the table by him .
But let us come to the scenery of the Fifth Act . Caton appears first upon the scene , sitting in a thoughtful pos- c ture ; in his hand Plato's treatise on the Immortality of t the Soul , a drawn sword on the table by him .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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