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... opinion concerning manna : Variety I ask not : 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 ...
... opinion concerning manna : Variety I ask not : 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 ...
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... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because his trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now ...
... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because his trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now ...
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... opinion , and confirmed him in the hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my por- tion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to ...
... opinion , and confirmed him in the hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my por- tion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to ...
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... opinion , that what we had to learn was , how to do good , and avoid evil . " Οττι τοι ἐν μέγαροισι κακόντ ' αγαθόντε τέτυκται . Of institutions we may judge by their effects . From this wonder working academy , I do not know that there ...
... opinion , that what we had to learn was , how to do good , and avoid evil . " Οττι τοι ἐν μέγαροισι κακόντ ' αγαθόντε τέτυκται . Of institutions we may judge by their effects . From this wonder working academy , I do not know that there ...
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... opinion of his own merit was like Milton's , less provocation than this might have raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to repudiate her for disobedi- ence ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to ...
... opinion of his own merit was like Milton's , less provocation than this might have raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to repudiate her for disobedi- ence ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to ...
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