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... thou art , ( Servile to all the skiey influences , ) That do this habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict : merely , thou art Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , Yet run'st toward him still : thou art ...
... thou art , ( Servile to all the skiey influences , ) That do this habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict : merely , thou art Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , Yet run'st toward him still : thou art ...
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... thou art higher far descended , Thee bright haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain , ) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her , and in secret ...
... thou art higher far descended , Thee bright haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain , ) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her , and in secret ...
Page 79
... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! Thee , Shepherd , thee the woods and desert caves , With wild thime and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . The willows , and the hazel copses green ...
... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! Thee , Shepherd , thee the woods and desert caves , With wild thime and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . The willows , and the hazel copses green ...
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... , Lycidas , the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore , In thy large recompense , and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood FROM COMUS . LADY . This way the noise was MILTON . 83.
... , Lycidas , the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore , In thy large recompense , and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood FROM COMUS . LADY . This way the noise was MILTON . 83.
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... thy ashes grace , Nor polished marble emulate thy face ? What though no sacred earth ... art , and all the proud shall be ; Poets themselves must fall like those ... thou beloved no more , FROM THE " EPISTLE TO DR . ARBUTHNOT . " PUPE . 99.
... thy ashes grace , Nor polished marble emulate thy face ? What though no sacred earth ... art , and all the proud shall be ; Poets themselves must fall like those ... thou beloved no more , FROM THE " EPISTLE TO DR . ARBUTHNOT . " PUPE . 99.
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