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... breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroyed , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ...
... breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroyed , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ...
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... breathing , if it chanced To wake into a slumberous tenderness ; Which when he heard , that minute did he bless , And breath'd himself : then from the closet crept , Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness , And over the hush'd carpet ...
... breathing , if it chanced To wake into a slumberous tenderness ; Which when he heard , that minute did he bless , And breath'd himself : then from the closet crept , Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness , And over the hush'd carpet ...
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... breath'd fierce breath against the sleepy portals , Clear'd them of heavy vapours , burst them wide Suddenly on the ocean's chilly streams . The planet orb of fire , whereon he rode Each day from east to west the heavens through , Spun ...
... breath'd fierce breath against the sleepy portals , Clear'd them of heavy vapours , burst them wide Suddenly on the ocean's chilly streams . The planet orb of fire , whereon he rode Each day from east to west the heavens through , Spun ...
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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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