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Page 214
... live as long as Agamemnon . Who knows whether the best of Men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable Persons forgot , than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time ? Without the favour of the everlasting ...
... live as long as Agamemnon . Who knows whether the best of Men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable Persons forgot , than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time ? Without the favour of the everlasting ...
Page 316
... live in the same divine principle , the root and record of their friendship . If absence be not death , neither is theirs . Death is but crossing the world , as friends do the seas ; they live in one another still . For they must needs ...
... live in the same divine principle , the root and record of their friendship . If absence be not death , neither is theirs . Death is but crossing the world , as friends do the seas ; they live in one another still . For they must needs ...
Page 980
... live on so , calmly , far from the paths of men ; and to look at the lives of clouds and insects ; to look deep into the heart of flowers , and see how lovingly the pistil and the stamens nestle there together ; and to see in the thorn ...
... live on so , calmly , far from the paths of men ; and to look at the lives of clouds and insects ; to look deep into the heart of flowers , and see how lovingly the pistil and the stamens nestle there together ; and to see in the thorn ...
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Aesop agen beautiful better boat called Captain Church Crito Ctesippus dear death delight earth enemy England English eyes face fair Falstaff father feel flowers FRANCIS VERE Froissart's Chronicles garden gentleman give ground Guenever hand hath haue head hear heard heart heaven honour Jocelin John King knew knyght kyng labour Lady learned light live look Lord Lothair Makbeth master Messrs mind moche morning nature never night noble passed Pembroke College person Plato pleasure praye Prince Redgauntlet Robert of Scotland sayd sche seemed ship side sight silence sonne soul spirit stood sweet talk tell Temse thanne thee therfore things thou thought tion told took town trees turned uncle Toby unto vnto voice walked whan whole wind woman word wyll young