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This feeling broke forth in Lycidas where after bewailing the starved sheep of the Anglican fold , neglected by slothful and heedless shepherds , he adds- Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said .
This feeling broke forth in Lycidas where after bewailing the starved sheep of the Anglican fold , neglected by slothful and heedless shepherds , he adds- Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said .
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Page 478 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
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| Title | The Papal Drama: A Historical Essay |
| Author | Thomas Hornblower Gill |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 9, 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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