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... rising , run its high career among the enlighteners of mankind . The object of this volume is to give such a selection from our eminent writers , as may best exhibit their styles of thought and language . All their beauties it would be ...
... rising , run its high career among the enlighteners of mankind . The object of this volume is to give such a selection from our eminent writers , as may best exhibit their styles of thought and language . All their beauties it would be ...
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... to rest So had I spoken with them every one , That I was of their fellowship anon , And made agreement early for to rise , B To take our way there as I you advise , CHAUCER PAGE From the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
... to rest So had I spoken with them every one , That I was of their fellowship anon , And made agreement early for to rise , B To take our way there as I you advise , CHAUCER PAGE From the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
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... rise in ; A sure and safe one , though thy master missed it . Mark but my fall , and that which ruined me : Cromwell , I charge thee , fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels : how can man then , The image of his Maker , hope ...
... rise in ; A sure and safe one , though thy master missed it . Mark but my fall , and that which ruined me : Cromwell , I charge thee , fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels : how can man then , The image of his Maker , hope ...
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... who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The rising world of waters , dark and deep , 36 Milton . Paradise Lost,' Book III From Paradise Lost.
... who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The rising world of waters , dark and deep , 36 Milton . Paradise Lost,' Book III From Paradise Lost.
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With a Few Introductory Observations George Croly. The rising world of waters , dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escaped the Stygian pool , though long detained In that ...
With a Few Introductory Observations George Croly. The rising world of waters , dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escaped the Stygian pool , though long detained In that ...
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