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... give some account . here to begin with . And , besides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours . What this signifies , or may come to in time , God knows ; if it ...
... give some account . here to begin with . And , besides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours . What this signifies , or may come to in time , God knows ; if it ...
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... give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious-- ness of sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of ...
... give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious-- ness of sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of ...
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... give me on To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to ...
... give me on To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to ...
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... gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE ... give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . A universal consternation : COWLEY . His bloody eyes he hurls round ...
... gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE ... give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . A universal consternation : COWLEY . His bloody eyes he hurls round ...
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... give more ? Nay , what's 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 ...
... give more ? Nay , what's 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 ...
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