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... means they may , Threat'ning their own confusion and decay : Air hated earth and water hated fire , Till Love relented their rebellious ire . He then them took and , tempering goodly well Their contrary dislikes with loved means , Did ...
... means they may , Threat'ning their own confusion and decay : Air hated earth and water hated fire , Till Love relented their rebellious ire . He then them took and , tempering goodly well Their contrary dislikes with loved means , Did ...
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... mean " en- lighten , " but it certainly refers forward to " that subtile knot which makes us man " and means to unravel the strands bind- ing body and soul . Thus the above lines mean that the ecstasy is an analysis both of man and of ...
... mean " en- lighten , " but it certainly refers forward to " that subtile knot which makes us man " and means to unravel the strands bind- ing body and soul . Thus the above lines mean that the ecstasy is an analysis both of man and of ...
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... means be confined and cloyed with repetition of that which is pre- scribed , but that our happiness may orb itself into a thousand vag- ancies of glory and delight , and with a kind of eccentrical equation be , as it were , an ...
... means be confined and cloyed with repetition of that which is pre- scribed , but that our happiness may orb itself into a thousand vag- ancies of glory and delight , and with a kind of eccentrical equation be , as it were , an ...
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