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... never paying , she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt . For then doth our tongue naturally and praisably utter her meaning when she borroweth no counterfeitness of other tongues to attire herself withal ; but used plainly her ...
... never paying , she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt . For then doth our tongue naturally and praisably utter her meaning when she borroweth no counterfeitness of other tongues to attire herself withal ; but used plainly her ...
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... never out of her court go Pain and Distress , Sekenesse and Ire , And Melancholie that angry sire , Ben of her palais Senatoures ; Goning and Grutching her herbegeors . The day and night her to tourment , With cruel death they her ...
... never out of her court go Pain and Distress , Sekenesse and Ire , And Melancholie that angry sire , Ben of her palais Senatoures ; Goning and Grutching her herbegeors . The day and night her to tourment , With cruel death they her ...
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... never was collected a list of droller relics : he has Our Lady's veil , a morse ! of the sail of St. Paul's ship , a glass full of pigges bones , ' and a pewter cross crammed with other objects of equal sanctity With the aid of these ...
... never was collected a list of droller relics : he has Our Lady's veil , a morse ! of the sail of St. Paul's ship , a glass full of pigges bones , ' and a pewter cross crammed with other objects of equal sanctity With the aid of these ...
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... never deviate with impunity . Bacon so strongly felt that the true bent of his character would lead him to consecrate his future life to sublime and solitary meditation , and was so proudly and justly confident in the yet unex- rcised ...
... never deviate with impunity . Bacon so strongly felt that the true bent of his character would lead him to consecrate his future life to sublime and solitary meditation , and was so proudly and justly confident in the yet unex- rcised ...
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... never been fruitful , gradually fell into dotage as its age advanced , and its latest period of existence was characterized by the same weakness which accompanies in man extreme old age — a senile and senseless garrulity , a perpetual ...
... never been fruitful , gradually fell into dotage as its age advanced , and its latest period of existence was characterized by the same weakness which accompanies in man extreme old age — a senile and senseless garrulity , a perpetual ...
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Страница 157 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
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