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... star . My mother was as mild as any saint , Half - canonized by all that look'd on her , So gracious was her tact and tenderness : But my good father thought a king a king ; He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand To lash offence , and ...
... star . My mother was as mild as any saint , Half - canonized by all that look'd on her , So gracious was her tact and tenderness : But my good father thought a king a king ; He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand To lash offence , and ...
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... star , Not like a king : three days he feasted us , And on the fourth I spake of why we came , And my betroth❜d . You do us , Prince , ' he said , Airing a snowy hand and signet gem , ' All honour . We remember love ourselves In our ...
... star , Not like a king : three days he feasted us , And on the fourth I spake of why we came , And my betroth❜d . You do us , Prince , ' he said , Airing a snowy hand and signet gem , ' All honour . We remember love ourselves In our ...
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... stars ; And some inscription ran along the front , But deep in shadow . Further on we gain'd A little street half garden and half house ; But scarce could hear each other speak for noise Of clocks and chimes , like silver hammers ...
... stars ; And some inscription ran along the front , But deep in shadow . Further on we gain'd A little street half garden and half house ; But scarce could hear each other speak for noise Of clocks and chimes , like silver hammers ...
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... d , Of twenty summers . At her left , a child , In shining draperies , headed like a star , Her maiden babe , a double April old , Aglaïa slept . We sat the Lady glanced : Then Florian , but no livelier than the dame That A MEDLEY . 31.
... d , Of twenty summers . At her left , a child , In shining draperies , headed like a star , Her maiden babe , a double April old , Aglaïa slept . We sat the Lady glanced : Then Florian , but no livelier than the dame That A MEDLEY . 31.
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... stars , yet since in truth The highest is the measure of the man , And not the Kaffir , Hottentot , Malay , Nor those horn - handed breakers of the glebe , But Homer , Plato , Verulam ; even so With woman and in arts of government ...
... stars , yet since in truth The highest is the measure of the man , And not the Kaffir , Hottentot , Malay , Nor those horn - handed breakers of the glebe , But Homer , Plato , Verulam ; even so With woman and in arts of government ...
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