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... reason men it call may The daisie , or els the eye of the day , The emprise , and floure of floures all . Ibid . Line 184 . THOMAS À KEMPIS . 1380-1471 . Man proposes , but God disposes.1 Imitation of Christ . Book i . Ch . 19 . And ...
... reason men it call may The daisie , or els the eye of the day , The emprise , and floure of floures all . Ibid . Line 184 . THOMAS À KEMPIS . 1380-1471 . Man proposes , but God disposes.1 Imitation of Christ . Book i . Ch . 19 . And ...
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... , To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature . The Fate of the Butterfly . Line 209 . 1 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morn- ing . Psalm cx . 3 . I was promised on a time To have reason for Spenser . II.
... , To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature . The Fate of the Butterfly . Line 209 . 1 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morn- ing . Psalm cx . 3 . I was promised on a time To have reason for Spenser . II.
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John Bartlett. I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season , I received nor rhyme nor reason . Lines on his promised Pension , 1 For of the soul the body form doth take , For soul is form , and ...
John Bartlett. I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season , I received nor rhyme nor reason . Lines on his promised Pension , 1 For of the soul the body form doth take , For soul is form , and ...
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... reason : I think him so , because I think him so . Act i . Sc . 2 . O , how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ! Act i . Sc . 3 . And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand ...
... reason : I think him so , because I think him so . Act i . Sc . 2 . O , how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ! Act i . Sc . 3 . And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand ...
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... reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them , they are not worth the search . Act i . Sc . I. They are as sick , that surfeit with too much , as they ...
... reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them , they are not worth the search . Act i . Sc . I. They are as sick , that surfeit with too much , as they ...
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Acti angels Beaumont and Fletcher beauty blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death Devil doth dream Dryden Dunciad earth Eccles Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epitaph Essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fear flower fool give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Lady Letter light Line live Lord man's Matt mind morning nature ne'er never Night numbers o'er Paradise Lost peace pleasure Plutarch Pope Prologue Prov Proverbs Satire Satire vi Shakespeare sigh sleep smile Song Song of Solomon Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee There's thine things THOMAS thought truth unto viii virtue voice weep wind wise woman words young youth