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... heaven , in my each hand a head . Again , Look to it , Gods ! for you the aggressors are , Keep you your rain and sunshine in your skies , And I'll keep back my flame and sacrifice . yet the versification is melodious , the language ...
... heaven , in my each hand a head . Again , Look to it , Gods ! for you the aggressors are , Keep you your rain and sunshine in your skies , And I'll keep back my flame and sacrifice . yet the versification is melodious , the language ...
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... heaven ) all are destroy- ed ; while only the impish cunning , the wicked , malignant , fiendish joy of the satyr and the de- mon is left . The simplicity of Eve is impaired , and even her purity and innocence stained ; ‡ cording to the ...
... heaven ) all are destroy- ed ; while only the impish cunning , the wicked , malignant , fiendish joy of the satyr and the de- mon is left . The simplicity of Eve is impaired , and even her purity and innocence stained ; ‡ cording to the ...
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... heavens did shew . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning , fill'd up all the parts . Heaven's gifts , which do like falling stars appear Scatter'd in others , all , as in their sphere , Were fix'd , conglobate in ...
... heavens did shew . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning , fill'd up all the parts . Heaven's gifts , which do like falling stars appear Scatter'd in others , all , as in their sphere , Were fix'd , conglobate in ...
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... heaven thy aim , hast had the grace To look the sun of righteousness i ' th ' face . What may we hope , if thou goest on thus fast , Scriptures at first ; enthusiasms at last ! Thou hast commenc'd , betimes , a saint , go on , Mingling ...
... heaven thy aim , hast had the grace To look the sun of righteousness i ' th ' face . What may we hope , if thou goest on thus fast , Scriptures at first ; enthusiasms at last ! Thou hast commenc'd , betimes , a saint , go on , Mingling ...
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... heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join ; Rewards , that less to him than us were given . Our former chiefs , like sticklers of the war , First sought to inflame the parties , then to poise : The quarrel lov'd , but did ...
... heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join ; Rewards , that less to him than us were given . Our former chiefs , like sticklers of the war , First sought to inflame the parties , then to poise : The quarrel lov'd , but did ...
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