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... Heav'n its empire doth maintain , It may afflict , but man must not complain . How different from that in Shakespeare's Lear , of Edgar whose bastard brother had been accessary to their father Gloucester's miseries : - The gods are just ...
... Heav'n its empire doth maintain , It may afflict , but man must not complain . How different from that in Shakespeare's Lear , of Edgar whose bastard brother had been accessary to their father Gloucester's miseries : - The gods are just ...
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... heav'n a long possession kept . The frighted satyrs that in woods delight , Now into plains with prick'd - up ears take flight ; And scudding thence , while they their horn - feet ply , About their sires the little sylvans cry . nation ...
... heav'n a long possession kept . The frighted satyrs that in woods delight , Now into plains with prick'd - up ears take flight ; And scudding thence , while they their horn - feet ply , About their sires the little sylvans cry . nation ...
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... Heav'n's commission stay , Amariel flies : a darted mandate came From that great Will which moves this mighty frame , Bid me to thee , my royal charge , repair , To guard thee from the demons of the air ; My flaming sword above ' em to ...
... Heav'n's commission stay , Amariel flies : a darted mandate came From that great Will which moves this mighty frame , Bid me to thee , my royal charge , repair , To guard thee from the demons of the air ; My flaming sword above ' em to ...
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... bred ; And , us'd to range , will ne'er be tamely led . Restore its freedom to my fetter'd will , And then I shall have pow'r to use you ill . Almanz . Good Heav'n , thy book of fate before 28 THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA . 888.
... bred ; And , us'd to range , will ne'er be tamely led . Restore its freedom to my fetter'd will , And then I shall have pow'r to use you ill . Almanz . Good Heav'n , thy book of fate before 28 THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA . 888.
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... Heav'n , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day . Or , if the order of the world below Will not the gap of one whole day allow , Give me that minute when she made her vow . * * * * So small a link , if ...
... Heav'n , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day . Or , if the order of the world below Will not the gap of one whole day allow , Give me that minute when she made her vow . * * * * So small a link , if ...
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