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... Leave of his Mistress . The Parasite Kind Feeling for Others ... The Mind is its Own Place ...... Profiting by the Faults of Others ... Wives and Mistresses .. Summum jus summa injuria Custom ...... 392 Colman . 392 ..ibid . 409 ...
... Leave of his Mistress . The Parasite Kind Feeling for Others ... The Mind is its Own Place ...... Profiting by the Faults of Others ... Wives and Mistresses .. Summum jus summa injuria Custom ...... 392 Colman . 392 ..ibid . 409 ...
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... leave we not the fatal Trojan shore And measure back the seas we cross'd before ? The plague destroying whom the sword would spare , ' Tis time to save the few remains of war . But let some prophet or some sacred sage Explore the cause ...
... leave we not the fatal Trojan shore And measure back the seas we cross'd before ? The plague destroying whom the sword would spare , ' Tis time to save the few remains of war . But let some prophet or some sacred sage Explore the cause ...
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... Leave me , O king ! to calm Achilles ' rage ; Rule thou thyself , as more advanced in age . Forbid it gods ! Achilles should be lost , The pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host . This said , he ceas'd . The king of men replies , Thy ...
... Leave me , O king ! to calm Achilles ' rage ; Rule thou thyself , as more advanced in age . Forbid it gods ! Achilles should be lost , The pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host . This said , he ceas'd . The king of men replies , Thy ...
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... leave his axle dry . * THE GIRDLE OF Venus . The embroidered zone , Where each embellishment divinely shone : There dwell the allurements , all that love inspire ; There soft seduction , there intense desire ; There witchery of words ...
... leave his axle dry . * THE GIRDLE OF Venus . The embroidered zone , Where each embellishment divinely shone : There dwell the allurements , all that love inspire ; There soft seduction , there intense desire ; There witchery of words ...
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... leaves of verdure blooms the opening rose ; The hyacinth declines his fragrant head , And purple violets deck the ... leave Pluto for the upper world , he gives her , as before men- tioned , or rather forces her , to eat a pomegranate ...
... leaves of verdure blooms the opening rose ; The hyacinth declines his fragrant head , And purple violets deck the ... leave Pluto for the upper world , he gives her , as before men- tioned , or rather forces her , to eat a pomegranate ...
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