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... stanza : - Hide , O , hide those hills of snow , Which thy frozen bosom bears , On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears ! But first set my poor heart free , Bound in those icy chains by thee . MUCH ADO ABOUT ...
... stanza : - Hide , O , hide those hills of snow , Which thy frozen bosom bears , On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears ! But first set my poor heart free , Bound in those icy chains by thee . MUCH ADO ABOUT ...
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... Stanza 12 . MICHAEL DRAYTON . 1563-1631 . For that fine madness still he did retain , Which rightly should possess a poet's brain . ( Of Marlowe . ) To Henry Reynolds , of Poets and Poesy . 1 In his will , he directed the stone over his ...
... Stanza 12 . MICHAEL DRAYTON . 1563-1631 . For that fine madness still he did retain , Which rightly should possess a poet's brain . ( Of Marlowe . ) To Henry Reynolds , of Poets and Poesy . 1 In his will , he directed the stone over his ...
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... Stanza 1 . JOHN KEPLER . 1571-1630 . It may well wait a century for a reader , as God has waited six thousand years for an observer . From Brewster's Martyrs of Science , p . 197 . 1 Nil tam difficile est quin quærendo investigari ...
... Stanza 1 . JOHN KEPLER . 1571-1630 . It may well wait a century for a reader , as God has waited six thousand years for an observer . From Brewster's Martyrs of Science , p . 197 . 1 Nil tam difficile est quin quærendo investigari ...
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... 92 . And threatening France , plac'd like a painted Jove , Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand . Annus Mirabilis . Stanza 39 . 1 Cf. Pope , Eloisa to Abelard , Line 192 . Men met each other with erected look , The steps 224 Dryden .
... 92 . And threatening France , plac'd like a painted Jove , Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand . Annus Mirabilis . Stanza 39 . 1 Cf. Pope , Eloisa to Abelard , Line 192 . Men met each other with erected look , The steps 224 Dryden .
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... cross , Who pen's a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15 . Friend to my life , which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song . Line 27 . [ Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot continued . Oblig'd by hunger Pope . 285.
... cross , Who pen's a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15 . Friend to my life , which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song . Line 27 . [ Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot continued . Oblig'd by hunger Pope . 285.
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Acti angels Beaumont and Fletcher beauty blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death Devil doth dream Dryden Dunciad earth Eccles Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epitaph Essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fear flower fool give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Lady Letter light Line live Lord man's Matt mind morning nature ne'er never Night numbers o'er Paradise Lost peace pleasure Plutarch Pope Prologue Prov Proverbs Satire Satire vi Shakespeare sigh sleep smile Song Song of Solomon Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee There's thine things THOMAS thought truth unto viii virtue voice weep wind wise woman words young youth