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... Give the botanist a posy of the flowers that Perdita longed for- Daffodils , That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ...
... Give the botanist a posy of the flowers that Perdita longed for- Daffodils , That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ...
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... give . They , too , happen to be written in verse ; but they are really the purest prose . The versification is extremely practised , but quite mechanical . His comedy , as a recent critic has pointed out , has really very little ...
... give . They , too , happen to be written in verse ; but they are really the purest prose . The versification is extremely practised , but quite mechanical . His comedy , as a recent critic has pointed out , has really very little ...
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... give an aesthetic pleasure over and above its convincing force . Though it may be too much to say that the finest ... gives twenty pages to Charles Lamb and two to Swift ; moreover , the anthologist has been at infinite pains to ransack ...
... give an aesthetic pleasure over and above its convincing force . Though it may be too much to say that the finest ... gives twenty pages to Charles Lamb and two to Swift ; moreover , the anthologist has been at infinite pains to ransack ...
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