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... Lord - Mayor's show ; the miser , when he hugs his gold ; the courtier , who builds his hopes upon a smile ; the savage , who paints his idol with blood ; the slave , who worships a tyrant , or the tyrant , who fancies himself a god ...
... Lord - Mayor's show ; the miser , when he hugs his gold ; the courtier , who builds his hopes upon a smile ; the savage , who paints his idol with blood ; the slave , who worships a tyrant , or the tyrant , who fancies himself a god ...
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... Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity , by conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things ...
... Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity , by conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things ...
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... Lord Mayor's shew , — " The pageant ended , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep ...
... Lord Mayor's shew , — " The pageant ended , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep ...
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... lord was keper of the celle . The reule of Seint Maure and of Seint Beneit , Because that it was olde and somdele streit , This ilke monk lette olde thinges pace , And held after the newe world the trace . He yave not of the text a ...
... lord was keper of the celle . The reule of Seint Maure and of Seint Beneit , Because that it was olde and somdele streit , This ilke monk lette olde thinges pace , And held after the newe world the trace . He yave not of the text a ...
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... their answer- " My lord , we had no such stuff in our thoughts . But we smiled to think , if you delight not in man , what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you , whom we 94 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
... their answer- " My lord , we had no such stuff in our thoughts . But we smiled to think , if you delight not in man , what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you , whom we 94 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
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