Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shown ; For , though I have ...
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shown ; For , though I have ...
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... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
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... mean by ' Marcia , the charming Marcia's left behind ' ? He is now in her own house ; and we have neither seen her nor⚫ heard of her anywhere else since the play began . But now let us hear Syphax : ' What hinders then , but that thou ...
... mean by ' Marcia , the charming Marcia's left behind ' ? He is now in her own house ; and we have neither seen her nor⚫ heard of her anywhere else since the play began . But now let us hear Syphax : ' What hinders then , but that thou ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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