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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
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... known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave ...
... known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave ...
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... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
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... known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and ...
... known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and ...
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... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius on the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think ...
... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius on the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think ...
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