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... nights in the week . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and ...
... nights in the week . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and ...
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... nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a ...
... nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a ...
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... night that I came hither , I caught so great a cold with a defluxion of rheum , as made me keep my chamber ten days . And , two after , had such a bruise on my ribs with & * L'Allegro of Milton . - Dr . J B The metaphysical poets were ...
... night that I came hither , I caught so great a cold with a defluxion of rheum , as made me keep my chamber ten days . And , two after , had such a bruise on my ribs with & * L'Allegro of Milton . - Dr . J B The metaphysical poets were ...
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... night by cattle put in by my neighbours . What this signifies , or may come to in time , God knows ; if it be ominous , it can end in nothing else than hanging . Another misfortune has been , and stranger than all the rest , that you ...
... night by cattle put in by my neighbours . What this signifies , or may come to in time , God knows ; if it be ominous , it can end in nothing else than hanging . Another misfortune has been , and stranger than all the rest , that you ...
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... night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor nex Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what and ...
... night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor nex Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what and ...
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