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... . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , 18 COWLEY .
... . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , 18 COWLEY .
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... tell Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . b J t His heroic lines are often formed of mono- syllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the ...
... tell Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . b J t His heroic lines are often formed of mono- syllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the ...
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... tell or receive these stories should consider , that no- body can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of the horse . Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others can tell ...
... tell or receive these stories should consider , that no- body can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of the horse . Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others can tell ...
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... telling that he has used per- sona , which according to Milton , signfies only a mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply person . But as Ne- mesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has ...
... telling that he has used per- sona , which according to Milton , signfies only a mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply person . But as Ne- mesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has ...
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... tell how a shep- herd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus ...
... tell how a shep- herd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus ...
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