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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 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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... DEATH , A VOYAGE . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . 9178 : 19 WAUng Their thoughts and expressions were some ...
... DEATH , A VOYAGE . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . 9178 : 19 WAUng Their thoughts and expressions were some ...
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... death , although sad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little sleep ; Thou at tais midnight seest me . It must be however confessed of these writers , that if they are upon uncommon subjects often unnecessarily and unpoetically ...
... death , although sad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little sleep ; Thou at tais midnight seest me . It must be however confessed of these writers , that if they are upon uncommon subjects often unnecessarily and unpoetically ...
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... death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He ...
... death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He ...
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