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Or , as Dryden says , excelling the original , I think , in expression , “ Be fair , or foul , or rain , or shine , The joys I have possessed , in spite of fate are mine , Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been ...
Or , as Dryden says , excelling the original , I think , in expression , “ Be fair , or foul , or rain , or shine , The joys I have possessed , in spite of fate are mine , Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been ...
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| Title | Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Theoreon ..., Volume 2 Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Theoreon, Sir Arthur Helps |
| Author | Sir Arthur Helps |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | James Munroe and Company, 1853 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Jan 2008 |
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