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... cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to lighten all our future days . When Providence , for secret ends , Corroding cares , or sharp affliction , sends ; Browne . AFFLICTION - AGE . AFFLICTION - continued . We must.
... cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to lighten all our future days . When Providence , for secret ends , Corroding cares , or sharp affliction , sends ; Browne . AFFLICTION - AGE . AFFLICTION - continued . We must.
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... clouds their snowy scalps , And thron'd eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow ! - All that expands the spirit , yet appals , ALPS - AMBITION . 15 ALPS - continued . Gather.
... clouds their snowy scalps , And thron'd eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow ! - All that expands the spirit , yet appals , ALPS - AMBITION . 15 ALPS - continued . Gather.
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... utmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . ; Sh . Jul . C. 1. 2 . Sh . Jul . C. 11. 1 . 16 AMBITION . AMBITION - continued . I have no.
... utmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . ; Sh . Jul . C. 1. 2 . Sh . Jul . C. 11. 1 . 16 AMBITION . AMBITION - continued . I have no.
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... clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind , Must look down on the hate of those below . Byron , Ch . H. 111. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is misery , e'en though ...
... clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind , Must look down on the hate of those below . Byron , Ch . H. 111. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is misery , e'en though ...
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... cloud Upon a sunny place . One angry moment often does What we repent for years ; It works the wrong we ne'er make right By sorrow or by tears . ANGLING . The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver ...
... cloud Upon a sunny place . One angry moment often does What we repent for years ; It works the wrong we ne'er make right By sorrow or by tears . ANGLING . The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver ...
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