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... sleep ; and no man worthy to tread the ground , will approach it but with homage for his genius , and sorrow that such genius should have been sent to darkness , in the hour when it might have begun to fulfil its course , and , freed ...
... sleep ; and no man worthy to tread the ground , will approach it but with homage for his genius , and sorrow that such genius should have been sent to darkness , in the hour when it might have begun to fulfil its course , and , freed ...
Page 37
... sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Fase after war , death after life , doth greatly please . ” The knight much wondered at his sudden wit , And 4 SPENCER . 37.
... sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Fase after war , death after life , doth greatly please . ” The knight much wondered at his sudden wit , And 4 SPENCER . 37.
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... sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not ; For what thou hast not , still thou ...
... sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not ; For what thou hast not , still thou ...
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... sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica look , how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of ...
... sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica look , how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of ...
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... sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me must more be heard — say , I taught thee , --- Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of glory , And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour , Found thee a way , out of his wreck ...
... sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me must more be heard — say , I taught thee , --- Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of glory , And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour , Found thee a way , out of his wreck ...
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