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Page 34
... fortune to brief minutes tell , Pointing to each his thunder , rain and wind , Or say with princes if it shall go well , By oft predict that I in heaven find . Sonnet 14 Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and ...
... fortune to brief minutes tell , Pointing to each his thunder , rain and wind , Or say with princes if it shall go well , By oft predict that I in heaven find . Sonnet 14 Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and ...
Page 132
... fortune , Must fall out with men too : what the declined is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall ... Which when they fall , as being slippery standers , The love that leaned on them as slippery too , Do ...
... fortune , Must fall out with men too : what the declined is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall ... Which when they fall , as being slippery standers , The love that leaned on them as slippery too , Do ...
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... fortune in the theatre , and came back home to die . All corroborated of course by Ben Jonson in the biographical tribute , prefaced to the First Folio , to the ' sweet swan of Avon ' who made his flights upon the Thames , That so did ...
... fortune in the theatre , and came back home to die . All corroborated of course by Ben Jonson in the biographical tribute , prefaced to the First Folio , to the ' sweet swan of Avon ' who made his flights upon the Thames , That so did ...
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Shakespeare's Self-portrait: Passages from His Work William Shakespeare,Alfred Leslie Rowse No preview available - 1985 |
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