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... Hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their ...
... Hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their ...
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... Hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first ...
... Hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first ...
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... Hell's triple porter captivate , Was overcome himself by conquering Fate . The Roman Tully's pleasing eloquence , Which in the ears did lock up every sense Of the rapt hearer ; his mellifluous breath Could not at all charm unremorseless ...
... Hell's triple porter captivate , Was overcome himself by conquering Fate . The Roman Tully's pleasing eloquence , Which in the ears did lock up every sense Of the rapt hearer ; his mellifluous breath Could not at all charm unremorseless ...
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... Hell ; Nor have we quite purg'd the Christian land ; Still idols here , like calves at Bethel , stand . And , though Pan's death long since all oracles broke , Yet still in rhyme the fiend Apollo spoke : Nay , with the worst of heathen ...
... Hell ; Nor have we quite purg'd the Christian land ; Still idols here , like calves at Bethel , stand . And , though Pan's death long since all oracles broke , Yet still in rhyme the fiend Apollo spoke : Nay , with the worst of heathen ...
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... Hell thought most fit ; Ah ! wretched man , curs'd by too good a wit ! If not all this your stubborn hearts can fright , Think on the West , think on the Cornish might : The Saxon fury , to that far - stretch'd place , Drove the torn ...
... Hell thought most fit ; Ah ! wretched man , curs'd by too good a wit ! If not all this your stubborn hearts can fright , Think on the West , think on the Cornish might : The Saxon fury , to that far - stretch'd place , Drove the torn ...
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