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... doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . Hymn in Honor of Beauty . Line 132 . A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of gospel - books . Elegiac ...
... doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . Hymn in Honor of Beauty . Line 132 . A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of gospel - books . Elegiac ...
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... doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strange . Act i . Sc . 2 . There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : If the ill spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Act i ...
... doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strange . Act i . Sc . 2 . There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : If the ill spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Act i ...
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... doth breed a habit in a man . Act v . Sc . 4 . COMEDY OF ERRORS . One Pinch ; a hungry lean - faced villain , A mere anatomy . Act v . Sc . 1 . A needy , hollow - eyed , sharp - looking wretch , A living dead man . Act v . Sc . 1 ...
... doth breed a habit in a man . Act v . Sc . 4 . COMEDY OF ERRORS . One Pinch ; a hungry lean - faced villain , A mere anatomy . Act v . Sc . 1 . A needy , hollow - eyed , sharp - looking wretch , A living dead man . Act v . Sc . 1 ...
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... doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' t were all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touched , But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends The ...
... doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' t were all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touched , But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends The ...
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... Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation , and a name . Act v . Sc . 1 ...
... Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation , and a name . Act v . Sc . 1 ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels beauty BEILBY PORTEUS BEN JONSON better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii dead dear death devil divine doth dream DRYDEN Dunciad earth Eccles Epistle Epitaph eyes fair Farewell fear fools give glory grave hand happy hath heart heaven Honest Man's Fortune honor hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar king Lady light Line Line 60 lips live look Lord man's Matt mind moon morning Nature ne'er never Night numbers o'er pity pleasure PLUTARCH POPE Prologue Prov Proverbs RICHARD BARNFIELD Satire Satire vii Shakspeare shining sighed sleep smile soft Song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit Stanza stars sweet tale tears thee There's things THOMAS THOMAS À KEMPIS thou hast thought truth verse viii virtue wind wise woman words