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... eye or do not enter into the design of the historian . It is only when the feelings and observations of our ancestors are known , when we see the models by which their opinions were formed , or the objects that excited their admiration ...
... eye or do not enter into the design of the historian . It is only when the feelings and observations of our ancestors are known , when we see the models by which their opinions were formed , or the objects that excited their admiration ...
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... eyes . They are not mere images dressed up for the occasion , and brought forward to display their inanimation , but living flesh and blood - our actual ancestors as they existed in those times , before the refinements of society had ...
... eyes . They are not mere images dressed up for the occasion , and brought forward to display their inanimation , but living flesh and blood - our actual ancestors as they existed in those times , before the refinements of society had ...
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... eyes , and sorrow at my heart . If this be love - to live a living death ; Then do I love , and draw this weary breath . BEN JONSON , the dramatist , has left us a collection of miscellaneous verses called Forests and Underwoods , and ...
... eyes , and sorrow at my heart . If this be love - to live a living death ; Then do I love , and draw this weary breath . BEN JONSON , the dramatist , has left us a collection of miscellaneous verses called Forests and Underwoods , and ...
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... eyes , Or music in their ear . DRAYTON was a voluminous , yet national poet . He composed the Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island ...
... eyes , Or music in their ear . DRAYTON was a voluminous , yet national poet . He composed the Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island ...
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... eyes , that passed this way . O yes , o yes , o yes , If there be any man , In town or country , can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you shew , That only I this heart do owe . It is a ...
... eyes , that passed this way . O yes , o yes , o yes , If there be any man , In town or country , can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you shew , That only I this heart do owe . It is a ...
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