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... Hamlet and Ghoft Ibid . 418 XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death Ibid . 422 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet Ibid . 423 XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day Alexander's Feaft XXXIII . Pope 424 Dryden 429 h ESSAY xxxii CONTENTS .
... Hamlet and Ghoft Ibid . 418 XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death Ibid . 422 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet Ibid . 423 XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day Alexander's Feaft XXXIII . Pope 424 Dryden 429 h ESSAY xxxii CONTENTS .
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... kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary ...
... kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary ...
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... Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their ...
... Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their ...
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... king's palace . It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate , and smiling at the mistake of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan ...
... king's palace . It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate , and smiling at the mistake of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan ...
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... king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the laft perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him , That it was he ...
... king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the laft perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him , That it was he ...
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