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... reason had condemned him : Twelve yeares intire I wasted in this warr , Twelve yeares of my most happy younger dayes , Butt I in them and they now wasted ar , Of all which past the sorrow only stayes . So wrate I once , and my mishapp ...
... reason had condemned him : Twelve yeares intire I wasted in this warr , Twelve yeares of my most happy younger dayes , Butt I in them and they now wasted ar , Of all which past the sorrow only stayes . So wrate I once , and my mishapp ...
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... Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters . Edited by Gerald R. Cragg . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ... Reason and Religion ( 1743 ) ; the Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion ( 1744-45 ) ; the Letter to the ...
... Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters . Edited by Gerald R. Cragg . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ... Reason and Religion ( 1743 ) ; the Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion ( 1744-45 ) ; the Letter to the ...
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... reason why . ' ( 49-56 ) If we have not taken the point of the earlier stanza , we shall miss the poignancy in the ... reason . Pressed by the grown- up to find a reason , he fobs him off with a weather - vane : but he does not deceive ...
... reason why . ' ( 49-56 ) If we have not taken the point of the earlier stanza , we shall miss the poignancy in the ... reason . Pressed by the grown- up to find a reason , he fobs him off with a weather - vane : but he does not deceive ...
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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