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... Death of John Keats ( 1821 ) . It begins : I weep for Adonais , he is dead ! Oh weep for Adonais ! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head ! Shelley borrowed the name from the title of an elegy on the death of ...
... Death of John Keats ( 1821 ) . It begins : I weep for Adonais , he is dead ! Oh weep for Adonais ! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head ! Shelley borrowed the name from the title of an elegy on the death of ...
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... death . She presents a picture of real female dignity against which the passion of love contends in vain . " " ble " ) , a title assumed by several Almanzor ( Arabic , The Invinci- Mussulman princes , notably by the second caliph of the ...
... death . She presents a picture of real female dignity against which the passion of love contends in vain . " " ble " ) , a title assumed by several Almanzor ( Arabic , The Invinci- Mussulman princes , notably by the second caliph of the ...
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... death . But Imogene became the bride of another and Alonzo's ghost , clad in complete steel , came and sat beside her during the wedding feast and she knew him not until he lifted up his vizor and showed a worm - infested skull . Then ...
... death . But Imogene became the bride of another and Alonzo's ghost , clad in complete steel , came and sat beside her during the wedding feast and she knew him not until he lifted up his vizor and showed a worm - infested skull . Then ...
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... death . Even then he is withheld by a grave doubt whether Pamela's social rank is such as would make her eligible as his mistress . This scruple overcome , he lays siege as one accustomed to conquest . Sur- prised at being rebuffed , he ...
... death . Even then he is withheld by a grave doubt whether Pamela's social rank is such as would make her eligible as his mistress . This scruple overcome , he lays siege as one accustomed to conquest . Sur- prised at being rebuffed , he ...
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... death . Annie of Tharaw ( Ger . Angke von Tharaw ) , subject of a song by Simon von Dach ( circa 1630 ) , who is highly praised throughout in a vein of bitter irony . The poet , it is said , smarting under the faith- lessness of his ...
... death . Annie of Tharaw ( Ger . Angke von Tharaw ) , subject of a song by Simon von Dach ( circa 1630 ) , who is highly praised throughout in a vein of bitter irony . The poet , it is said , smarting under the faith- lessness of his ...
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