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... till it coerces those vaporous and unformed things into shape , and lifts them up for the admiration of the world , with the buoyancy and radiance of a cloud painted by the sun . The stern superstitions of the republicans , the military ...
... till it coerces those vaporous and unformed things into shape , and lifts them up for the admiration of the world , with the buoyancy and radiance of a cloud painted by the sun . The stern superstitions of the republicans , the military ...
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... till he had given promise of excellence in his peculiar style . His versification was chiefly formed on the model of Spenser ; and few as his poems are , they exhibit a rich and delicate conception of the beauty of our language ...
... till he had given promise of excellence in his peculiar style . His versification was chiefly formed on the model of Spenser ; and few as his poems are , they exhibit a rich and delicate conception of the beauty of our language ...
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... till the glass be all outrun ? Death is the end of woes : die soon , O fairy's son . " The knight was much enmoved with this speech , That as a sword's point through his heart did pierce ; And in his conscience made a secret breach ...
... till the glass be all outrun ? Death is the end of woes : die soon , O fairy's son . " The knight was much enmoved with this speech , That as a sword's point through his heart did pierce ; And in his conscience made a secret breach ...
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... till his return their labour not to slake . d ; In the meantime , through that false lady's train , He was surprized and buried under bier , Ne ever to his work returned again ; Nathless those fiends may not their work forbear , So ...
... till his return their labour not to slake . d ; In the meantime , through that false lady's train , He was surprized and buried under bier , Ne ever to his work returned again ; Nathless those fiends may not their work forbear , So ...
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... till I shrink with cold , I smile , and say , This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in ...
... till I shrink with cold , I smile , and say , This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in ...
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