LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... told by Barnest , who had means enough of information , that whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had ...
... told by Barnest , who had means enough of information , that whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had ...
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... told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whose hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose ...
... told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whose hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose ...
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... told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than ...
... told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than ...
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... told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ; from this Cowley takes an opportunity of describing hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth ...
... told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ; from this Cowley takes an opportunity of describing hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth ...
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... told , and been dismissed to improve the idea in our different proportions of conception ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his scarfe ...
... told , and been dismissed to improve the idea in our different proportions of conception ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his scarfe ...
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