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Not fierce Othello in so loud a strain Roar'd for the handkerchief that caused his pain . But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd , And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost ! The lock , obtain'd with guilt , and kept with pain ...
Not fierce Othello in so loud a strain Roar'd for the handkerchief that caused his pain . But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd , And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost ! The lock , obtain'd with guilt , and kept with pain ...
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Tis come , the glorious morn ! the second birth Of heaven and earth ! awakening nature hears The new - creating word , and starts to life In every heightened form , from pain and death For ever free . The great eternal scheme ...
Tis come , the glorious morn ! the second birth Of heaven and earth ! awakening nature hears The new - creating word , and starts to life In every heightened form , from pain and death For ever free . The great eternal scheme ...
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Now comes the pain of truth , to whom ' tis pain ; ' O folly ! for to bear all naked truths , And to envisage circumstance , all calm , “ That is the top of sovereignty . Mark well ! ' As Heaven and Earth are fairer , fairer far ' Than ...
Now comes the pain of truth , to whom ' tis pain ; ' O folly ! for to bear all naked truths , And to envisage circumstance , all calm , “ That is the top of sovereignty . Mark well ! ' As Heaven and Earth are fairer , fairer far ' Than ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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