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... seek company at dawn but prefers to walk at night with the sad nightingale or sit alone by a dying fire , when ... seeks woodland out of the sun , or he muses , like Shakespeare's Jacques , by a brookside , to atmospheric music . His ...
... seek company at dawn but prefers to walk at night with the sad nightingale or sit alone by a dying fire , when ... seeks woodland out of the sun , or he muses , like Shakespeare's Jacques , by a brookside , to atmospheric music . His ...
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... seeking some more settled peace , making him ready for the next great opportunity to use his pen . That came , as if providentially , with the trial and impending execution of the king . In the latter part of 1648 political events had ...
... seeking some more settled peace , making him ready for the next great opportunity to use his pen . That came , as if providentially , with the trial and impending execution of the king . In the latter part of 1648 political events had ...
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... seeking to command a voice which would be heard in the cause of creating a reformed republican culture , but in some he would speak for the government , in others as advice as a citizen to the government , and with increasing isolation ...
... seeking to command a voice which would be heard in the cause of creating a reformed republican culture , but in some he would speak for the government , in others as advice as a citizen to the government , and with increasing isolation ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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