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... happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was ...
... happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was ...
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... happy , if I could say how much . Act ii . Sc . I. Sigh no more , ladies , sigh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; To one thing constant never . One foot in sea and one on shore ; Act ii . Sc . 3 . Act ii . Sc . 3 . Sits the wind in ...
... happy , if I could say how much . Act ii . Sc . I. Sigh no more , ladies , sigh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; To one thing constant never . One foot in sea and one on shore ; Act ii . Sc . 3 . Act ii . Sc . 3 . Sits the wind in ...
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... daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady - smocks all silver white , And cuckoo - buds of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight . Act v . Sc . 2 . A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . But earthlier happy ' is Shakespeare . 31.
... daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady - smocks all silver white , And cuckoo - buds of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight . Act v . Sc . 2 . A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . But earthlier happy ' is Shakespeare . 31.
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John Bartlett. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . But earthlier happy ' is the rose distill'd , Than that which , withering on ... happy , ' White , Cambridge , Dyce . ' earthly happier , ' Singer , Staunton , Knight . Midsummer Night's Dream ...
John Bartlett. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . But earthlier happy ' is the rose distill'd , Than that which , withering on ... happy , ' White , Cambridge , Dyce . ' earthly happier , ' Singer , Staunton , Knight . Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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... happy havens . Act i . Sc . 3 . O , who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic ...
... happy havens . Act i . Sc . 3 . O , who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic ...
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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