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... dead . Yet , susceptible as he must have been of the poet's delight in praise , he seems to have utterly disregarded fame . He left his writings to the false and garbled copies of the theatre . It is not known that he even cared whether ...
... dead . Yet , susceptible as he must have been of the poet's delight in praise , he seems to have utterly disregarded fame . He left his writings to the false and garbled copies of the theatre . It is not known that he even cared whether ...
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... dead or bled ; Two small hounds had she that she fed With roasted flesh , and milk , and wasted bread , But sore she wept if one of them were dead , Or if men smote it with a staff smarte : She was all conscience and tender heart . Full ...
... dead or bled ; Two small hounds had she that she fed With roasted flesh , and milk , and wasted bread , But sore she wept if one of them were dead , Or if men smote it with a staff smarte : She was all conscience and tender heart . Full ...
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... dead , a living death , And buried but , O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a moving grave ; Buried , yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial , From worst of other evils , pains , and But made hereby obnoxious more To ...
... dead , a living death , And buried but , O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a moving grave ; Buried , yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial , From worst of other evils , pains , and But made hereby obnoxious more To ...
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... dead , dead ere his prime ; Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept , and welter to the parching ...
... dead , dead ere his prime ; Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept , and welter to the parching ...
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... dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new - spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So ...
... dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new - spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So ...
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