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Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments Will hum about mine ears , and sometimes voices ; That , if I then had wak'd after long sleep , Will make me sleep again : and then in dreaming , The clouds , methought , would open and shew ...
Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments Will hum about mine ears , and sometimes voices ; That , if I then had wak'd after long sleep , Will make me sleep again : and then in dreaming , The clouds , methought , would open and shew ...
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able acquainted ADVENTURER affection answer appearance attempt attention beauty became become believe cause character circumstances common considered continued danger daughters desire determined discovered distress dreadful dress easily equal evil excellence expected expressed eyes father fear Flavilla follow fortune frequently gained give greater hand happiness heart honour hope human imagination immediately increased kind knew knowledge known labour lady learned leave less letter live look mankind manner means ment mind moment morning nature ness never night object observed obtain once passed passion perhaps person pleasure possession present produced proportion reason received reflected remarked scarce sense sentiments short sometimes soon success suffered surely taken tenderness thee things thou thought tion told truth turned virtue wish wretch writer
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| Title | The British Essayists: Adventurer Volume 25, Part 3 of The British Essayists: To which are Prefixed Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Author | James Ferguson |
| Publisher | J. Haddon, 1819 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2007 |
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