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Page 120 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid, and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 24 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
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| Title | Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. Walsh Volume 2 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Nov 23, 2006 |
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