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... To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to day , to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy Princes grace , yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking , yet waite manie yeeres ...
... To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to day , to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy Princes grace , yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking , yet waite manie yeeres ...
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He stayed in England about a year and a half [ 1590-91 ] , long enough apparently to make up his mind that he had not much to hope for from his great friends , Ralegh and perhaps Essex , who were busy on their own schemes .
He stayed in England about a year and a half [ 1590-91 ] , long enough apparently to make up his mind that he had not much to hope for from his great friends , Ralegh and perhaps Essex , who were busy on their own schemes .
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Exaggeration , diffuseness , prolixity , were the literary diseases of the age ; an age of great excitement and hope , which had suddenly discovered its wealth and its powers , but not the rules of true economy in using them .
Exaggeration , diffuseness , prolixity , were the literary diseases of the age ; an age of great excitement and hope , which had suddenly discovered its wealth and its powers , but not the rules of true economy in using them .
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