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... honour , Cleveland has paral- leled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , nor no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleveland has paral- leled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , nor no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour conferred by the King , from whom all honour is derived , and which therefore no man has a right to bestow upon himself ; and added , that he might , with equal propriety , style himself a Volunteer Lord , or Volunteer Baronet ...
... honour conferred by the King , from whom all honour is derived , and which therefore no man has a right to bestow upon himself ; and added , that he might , with equal propriety , style himself a Volunteer Lord , or Volunteer Baronet ...
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... honour which he had lost , by crushing his opponent . Theo- bald was not of bulk enough to fill a poem , and therefore it was necessary to find other enemies with other names , at whose expense he might divert the public . In this ...
... honour which he had lost , by crushing his opponent . Theo- bald was not of bulk enough to fill a poem , and therefore it was necessary to find other enemies with other names , at whose expense he might divert the public . In this ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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