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... Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles , these may be examples : By every wind that comes this way , Send me at least a sigh or two , Such and so many I'll repay As shall themselves ...
... Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles , these may be examples : By every wind that comes this way , Send me at least a sigh or two , Such and so many I'll repay As shall themselves ...
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... whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd 22 LIFE OF COWLEY .
... whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd 22 LIFE OF COWLEY .
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... whilst we are living to enjoy it , but is a fantastical kind of reversion to our own - selves : neither ought any man to envy poets this posthumous and imaginary happiness , since they find commonly so little in present , that it may be ...
... whilst we are living to enjoy it , but is a fantastical kind of reversion to our own - selves : neither ought any man to envy poets this posthumous and imaginary happiness , since they find commonly so little in present , that it may be ...
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... Whilst thoughts ' gainst thoughts rise up in mu- tiny , She took a lute ( being far from any ears ) And tun'd this song , posing that harmony Which poets attribute to heavenly spheres . Thus had she sung when her dear love was slain ...
... Whilst thoughts ' gainst thoughts rise up in mu- tiny , She took a lute ( being far from any ears ) And tun'd this song , posing that harmony Which poets attribute to heavenly spheres . Thus had she sung when her dear love was slain ...
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... Whilst Cupid , a blind pilot , doth command . At last resolv'd : " How shall I seek , " said he , " T " excuse myself , dearest Philocrates ! That I from thee have hid this secrecy ? Yet censure not ; give me first leave to case [ known ...
... Whilst Cupid , a blind pilot , doth command . At last resolv'd : " How shall I seek , " said he , " T " excuse myself , dearest Philocrates ! That I from thee have hid this secrecy ? Yet censure not ; give me first leave to case [ known ...
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