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Page vii
... 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 aside ...
... 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 aside ...
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... turns none to good.1 A Description of the Properties of Winds . All's fish they get That cometh to net . February's Abstract . Such mistress , such Nan , Such master , such man.2 April's Abstract . ' Tis merry in hall Where beards wag ...
... turns none to good.1 A Description of the Properties of Winds . All's fish they get That cometh to net . February's Abstract . Such mistress , such Nan , Such master , such man.2 April's Abstract . ' Tis merry in hall Where beards wag ...
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... Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Act v . Sc . I. That is the true beginning of our end . Act v . Sc . I. The best in this kind are but shadows . Act v . Sc . I. The iron tongue of midnight ...
... Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Act v . Sc . I. That is the true beginning of our end . Act v . Sc . I. The best in this kind are but shadows . Act v . Sc . I. The iron tongue of midnight ...
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... on nose and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd , a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice , Turning again toward childish treble , pipes [ As You Like It continued . Last scene of Shakespeare . 41.
... on nose and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd , a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice , Turning again toward childish treble , pipes [ As You Like It continued . Last scene of Shakespeare . 41.
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... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus , And witch the world with noble horsemanship . Act iv . Sc . I. The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Act iv . S. 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets ...
... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus , And witch the world with noble horsemanship . Act iv . Sc . I. The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Act iv . S. 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets ...
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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