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... breath release all duty's rites . ABSENCE . Shakespeare , Ric . 11. IV . 1 . What ! keep a week away ! Seven days and nights ? Eight score eight hours ? and lover's absent hours , More tedious than the dial eight score times ? O weary ...
... breath release all duty's rites . ABSENCE . Shakespeare , Ric . 11. IV . 1 . What ! keep a week away ! Seven days and nights ? Eight score eight hours ? and lover's absent hours , More tedious than the dial eight score times ? O weary ...
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... breath : Work like a man , but don't be worked to death . ACTORS - see Players . Holmes . Look to the players ; see them well bestow'd : They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times . They say we live by vice ; indeed ' tis ...
... breath : Work like a man , but don't be worked to death . ACTORS - see Players . Holmes . Look to the players ; see them well bestow'd : They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times . They say we live by vice ; indeed ' tis ...
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... breath of fragrance in . Churchill , Rosciad . Gay , pt . 2. Fable II . Appearances deceive , And this one maxim is a standing rule , Men are not what they seem . R. Dawes . Havard , Scanderbeg . Your thief looks in the crowd , Exactly ...
... breath of fragrance in . Churchill , Rosciad . Gay , pt . 2. Fable II . Appearances deceive , And this one maxim is a standing rule , Men are not what they seem . R. Dawes . Havard , Scanderbeg . Your thief looks in the crowd , Exactly ...
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... breath ? Sh . K. John , II . 1 . Here's a large mouth , indeed , That spits forth death , and mountains , rocks , and seas ; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions , As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs . Nay , an thou'lt mouth , I'll ...
... breath ? Sh . K. John , II . 1 . Here's a large mouth , indeed , That spits forth death , and mountains , rocks , and seas ; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions , As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs . Nay , an thou'lt mouth , I'll ...
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... Breath'd o'er the blue expanse . So calm , the waters scarcely seem to stray , And yet they glide like happiness away . The wind breathed soft as lovers sigh , And oft renew'd , seem'd oft to die , With breathless pause between , O who ...
... Breath'd o'er the blue expanse . So calm , the waters scarcely seem to stray , And yet they glide like happiness away . The wind breathed soft as lovers sigh , And oft renew'd , seem'd oft to die , With breathless pause between , O who ...
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