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Page 14
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
Page 15
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
Page 17
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
Page 18
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve❞ Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contrast ...
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve❞ Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contrast ...
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... of thy May . DONNE . COWLEY . Upon a Paper written with the Juice of Lemon , and read by the Fire . Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , 2 * A new - born wood of various lines there grows COWLEY . 19.
... of thy May . DONNE . COWLEY . Upon a Paper written with the Juice of Lemon , and read by the Fire . Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , 2 * A new - born wood of various lines there grows COWLEY . 19.
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