Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... things , That make up all their magazines ; If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters , embassies , and spies , The frowns , and smiles , and flatteries , The quarrels , tears , and perjuries ...
... things , That make up all their magazines ; If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters , embassies , and spies , The frowns , and smiles , and flatteries , The quarrels , tears , and perjuries ...
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... thing that walks by night In fog or fire , by lake or moorish fen , Blue meager hag , or stubborn unlaid ghost That ... things that no gross ear can hear , Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Far from the cheerful haunt of men and ...
... thing that walks by night In fog or fire , by lake or moorish fen , Blue meager hag , or stubborn unlaid ghost That ... things that no gross ear can hear , Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Far from the cheerful haunt of men and ...
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... things , presenting Satan with his angels now falling into Hell described here , not in the center ( for Heaven and Earth may be sup- posed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
... things , presenting Satan with his angels now falling into Hell described here , not in the center ( for Heaven and Earth may be sup- posed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
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... things invite To peaceful counsels , and the settled state Of order. To be no more . Sad cure ! for who would lose , Though full of pain , this intellectual being , Those thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather , swallow ...
... things invite To peaceful counsels , and the settled state Of order. To be no more . Sad cure ! for who would lose , Though full of pain , this intellectual being , Those thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather , swallow ...
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... things shall be your prey . " He ceas'd , for both seem'd highly pleas'd , and Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should be fill'd ; and blest his maw Destin'd to that good hour : no less rejoic'd His mother bad ...
... things shall be your prey . " He ceas'd , for both seem'd highly pleas'd , and Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should be fill'd ; and blest his maw Destin'd to that good hour : no less rejoic'd His mother bad ...
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