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... night ; With whom a while I staid at Rotterdame , Not so renowed by Erasmus ' name : Yet every hour did seem a world of time , Till I had seen that soul - reviving clime , And thought the foggy Netherlands unfit , A wat'ry soil to clog ...
... night ; With whom a while I staid at Rotterdame , Not so renowed by Erasmus ' name : Yet every hour did seem a world of time , Till I had seen that soul - reviving clime , And thought the foggy Netherlands unfit , A wat'ry soil to clog ...
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... night . He read nature , from season to season , and man in every hour of his existence ; but there was about his doing this , the mild complacency of a supe- rior being , not the swollen muscle , and bursting veins of the gladiator ...
... night . He read nature , from season to season , and man in every hour of his existence ; but there was about his doing this , the mild complacency of a supe- rior being , not the swollen muscle , and bursting veins of the gladiator ...
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... night , were very babies in fortitude . A quiet conscience rarely sees a frightful object in the repose of nature ; it has none of the night - mare agonies of villany . Angels smooth the pillows of the virtuous , and bring visions of ...
... night , were very babies in fortitude . A quiet conscience rarely sees a frightful object in the repose of nature ; it has none of the night - mare agonies of villany . Angels smooth the pillows of the virtuous , and bring visions of ...
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Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical Remarks Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. night so much better for doing well , who would not wish to lie down in the long sleep of the grave , with all quiet about his heart ? Macbeth was of a more ...
Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical Remarks Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. night so much better for doing well , who would not wish to lie down in the long sleep of the grave , with all quiet about his heart ? Macbeth was of a more ...
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... Johnson spent his days and nights in commenting upon , and millions of the wise devour each succeeding day , will last while our language is spoken , or time exists . Francis Bacon was contemporary with Shakspeare . He was born 54.
... Johnson spent his days and nights in commenting upon , and millions of the wise devour each succeeding day , will last while our language is spoken , or time exists . Francis Bacon was contemporary with Shakspeare . He was born 54.
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