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... come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire . To this late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those ...
... come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire . To this late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those ...
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... come to decay- whom this seasonable supply had , in all probability , saved from mendicancy ; and that this young stork , at the expense of his own good name , had all this while been only feeding the old birds ! The governors on this ...
... come to decay- whom this seasonable supply had , in all probability , saved from mendicancy ; and that this young stork , at the expense of his own good name , had all this while been only feeding the old birds ! The governors on this ...
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... comes back with all the soothing images of indolence , and summer slumbers , and work like play , and innocent idleness , and Elysian exemp- tions , and life itself a " playing holiday . " Though sufficiently removed from the ...
... comes back with all the soothing images of indolence , and summer slumbers , and work like play , and innocent idleness , and Elysian exemp- tions , and life itself a " playing holiday . " Though sufficiently removed from the ...
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... Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies , with hope like a fiery column before thee the dark pillar not yet turned - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! - How have I seen the ...
... Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies , with hope like a fiery column before thee the dark pillar not yet turned - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! - How have I seen the ...
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... come in fancy , old adversaries . I play over again for love , as the gamesters phrase it , games , for which I once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life re- versed . I would no ...
... come in fancy , old adversaries . I play over again for love , as the gamesters phrase it , games , for which I once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life re- versed . I would no ...
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