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... cold and chastized fancy , moved before the young mind of England like a new creation . If England had been left to the full exercise of her powers , thus awakened , probably no nation of Europe would have made a more rapid progress to ...
... cold and chastized fancy , moved before the young mind of England like a new creation . If England had been left to the full exercise of her powers , thus awakened , probably no nation of Europe would have made a more rapid progress to ...
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... cold ; And to the villain said , " Thou damned wight , The author of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? " " What frantic fit ...
... cold ; And to the villain said , " Thou damned wight , The author of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? " " What frantic fit ...
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... cold , that makes the heart to quake ; And ever fickle fortune rageth rife ; All which , and thousands more , do make a loathsome life . 66 Thou , wretched man , of death hath greatest need , If in true balance thou wilt weigh thy state ...
... cold , that makes the heart to quake ; And ever fickle fortune rageth rife ; All which , and thousands more , do make a loathsome life . 66 Thou , wretched man , of death hath greatest need , If in true balance thou wilt weigh thy state ...
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... cold , I smile , and say , This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this ...
... cold , I smile , and say , This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this ...
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... cold marble , where no mention Of me must more be heard — say , I taught thee , — Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of glory , And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour , Found thee a way , out of his wreck , to rise in ; A ...
... cold marble , where no mention Of me must more be heard — say , I taught thee , — Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of glory , And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour , Found thee a way , out of his wreck , to rise in ; A ...
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