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... thee , and learn to halve my heart ? Years have not seen , time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee . Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler , And daughters sometimes run off with the butler . Byron , Bride of Ab ...
... thee , and learn to halve my heart ? Years have not seen , time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee . Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler , And daughters sometimes run off with the butler . Byron , Bride of Ab ...
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... thee , I admonish'd thee , foretold The danger , and the lurking enemy That lay in wait ; beyond this had been force , [ 76 . And force upon free - will hath here no place . Milton , vII . 77 . Be wise with speed ; A fool at forty is a ...
... thee , I admonish'd thee , foretold The danger , and the lurking enemy That lay in wait ; beyond this had been force , [ 76 . And force upon free - will hath here no place . Milton , vII . 77 . Be wise with speed ; A fool at forty is a ...
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... thee alone we know Justly to value things below . I am not now in fortune's power : He that is down , can fall no lower . Who has not known ill fortune , never knew Himself , or his own virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of ...
... thee alone we know Justly to value things below . I am not now in fortune's power : He that is down , can fall no lower . Who has not known ill fortune , never knew Himself , or his own virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of ...
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... thee , cease thy counsel Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve . Sh . Much A. v . 1 . Learn to be wise , and practise how to thrive : That would I have thee do ; and not to spend Your coin on every bauble that you ...
... thee , cease thy counsel Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve . Sh . Much A. v . 1 . Learn to be wise , and practise how to thrive : That would I have thee do ; and not to spend Your coin on every bauble that you ...
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... thee ! There affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen . In man or woman , but ... thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again . Sh . Ham . 1. 2 . Sh . Poems . Sh . Oth . III . 3 . 10 ...
... thee ! There affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen . In man or woman , but ... thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again . Sh . Ham . 1. 2 . Sh . Poems . Sh . Oth . III . 3 . 10 ...
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