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... doubt , in the panic regarding the plague and the grumbling about the noisome lodgings which occupied the short course of a session that must have seemed to him like a summer holiday . He little realized , we may be sure , that he was ...
... doubt , in the panic regarding the plague and the grumbling about the noisome lodgings which occupied the short course of a session that must have seemed to him like a summer holiday . He little realized , we may be sure , that he was ...
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... doubt , of terror on the lover's part . 1 Exactly a hundred years later , we find Sacharissa still named among the immortal ladies of poetic history . Elijah Fenton , in 1730 , confidently sings : - " Secure beneath the wing of ...
... doubt , of terror on the lover's part . 1 Exactly a hundred years later , we find Sacharissa still named among the immortal ladies of poetic history . Elijah Fenton , in 1730 , confidently sings : - " Secure beneath the wing of ...
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... doubt will hear ! " May my Lady Dorothy , ( if we may yet call her so , ) suffer so much , and have the like passion for this young Lord , whom she has preferr'd to the rest of mankind , as others have had for her ! And may this love ...
... doubt will hear ! " May my Lady Dorothy , ( if we may yet call her so , ) suffer so much , and have the like passion for this young Lord , whom she has preferr'd to the rest of mankind , as others have had for her ! And may this love ...
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... doubt that these too - gracious words were but the prelude to one of those fatal confidences by which Charles lightly threw away the lives of his best servants , as a chess - player abandons his pawns . It is not to be doubted that ...
... doubt that these too - gracious words were but the prelude to one of those fatal confidences by which Charles lightly threw away the lives of his best servants , as a chess - player abandons his pawns . It is not to be doubted that ...
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... doubt- less with them , and Lord Conway too ; whether the great Earl of Northumberland actually pledged himself is matter of doubt . Tompkins , under Waller's direction , made a kind of census of the city trained bands , and counted up ...
... doubt- less with them , and Lord Conway too ; whether the great Earl of Northumberland actually pledged himself is matter of doubt . Tompkins , under Waller's direction , made a kind of census of the city trained bands , and counted up ...
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