Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Dramatists of the Restoration: John Crowne - Page 355edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
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| William Shakespeare - 1733 - 492 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1752 - 510 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1752 - 268 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1767 - 510 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 360 pages
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| Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Elizabeth Griffith - Didactic drama, English - 1775 - 626 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1784 - 116 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
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| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790 - 694 pages
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