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... turn to day . Huge hosts of men he could alone dismay , And hosts of men of meanest things could frame , When so him list his enemies to fray ; That to this day for terror of his fame , The fiends do quake , when any him to them does ...
... turn to day . Huge hosts of men he could alone dismay , And hosts of men of meanest things could frame , When so him list his enemies to fray ; That to this day for terror of his fame , The fiends do quake , when any him to them does ...
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... turn'd to a modest gaze , By the sweet power of music : therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees , stones , and floods ; Since nought so stockish , hard , and full of rage , But music for the time doth change his nature ...
... turn'd to a modest gaze , By the sweet power of music : therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees , stones , and floods ; Since nought so stockish , hard , and full of rage , But music for the time doth change his nature ...
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... turn awry , And lose the name of action . HUMAN LIFE . To - morrow , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty pace from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The ...
... turn awry , And lose the name of action . HUMAN LIFE . To - morrow , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty pace from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The ...
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... turn , And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud . For we were nurst upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock , by fountain , shade , and rill . Together both , ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn , We ...
... turn , And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud . For we were nurst upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock , by fountain , shade , and rill . Together both , ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn , We ...
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... Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err , there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , And cast a gleam over this tufted grove . I cannot halloo to my brothers , but Such noise as I can make to ...
... Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err , there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , And cast a gleam over this tufted grove . I cannot halloo to my brothers , but Such noise as I can make to ...
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