The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets ...
... death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets ...
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... death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley ...
... death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley ...
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... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
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... the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's Heaven's coalery , and coal's our sun . Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a 20 COWLEY .
... the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's Heaven's coalery , and coal's our sun . Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a 20 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for Heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might ... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's ...
Samuel Johnson. Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for Heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might ... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's ...
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