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... lines : How else shall Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old . But it is not ... line . The poet's words waken a succession of echoes in the ear of the scholar : - " Bright effluence of bright ...
... lines : How else shall Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old . But it is not ... line . The poet's words waken a succession of echoes in the ear of the scholar : - " Bright effluence of bright ...
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... lines , so loves oblique , may well Themselves in every angle greet : But ours so truly parallel , Though infinite , can never meet ; but above all the sudden soar of passion in bold and felicitous image , in clangorous lines : But at ...
... lines , so loves oblique , may well Themselves in every angle greet : But ours so truly parallel , Though infinite , can never meet ; but above all the sudden soar of passion in bold and felicitous image , in clangorous lines : But at ...
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... lines on Donne and on Sandys's version of the Psalms , which are by no means the worst of their kind . He has , on the other hand , included one , Cleveland's on Edward King , some lines of which might be quoted to illustrate the ...
... lines on Donne and on Sandys's version of the Psalms , which are by no means the worst of their kind . He has , on the other hand , included one , Cleveland's on Edward King , some lines of which might be quoted to illustrate the ...
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