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... heaven allows . ( ' Love and Life ' ) Rochester's expectations are low , and his vision of peace is both simple and difficult to assess : When , wearied with a world of woe , To thy safe bosom I retire Where love and peace and truth ...
... heaven allows . ( ' Love and Life ' ) Rochester's expectations are low , and his vision of peace is both simple and difficult to assess : When , wearied with a world of woe , To thy safe bosom I retire Where love and peace and truth ...
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... heaven's gifts , being heaven's due , It makes the father , less , to rue . and by the tenderness of the ending : This grave partakes the fleshly birth . Which cover lightly , gentle earth . ( 11. 21–5 ) The loss is registered , but it ...
... heaven's gifts , being heaven's due , It makes the father , less , to rue . and by the tenderness of the ending : This grave partakes the fleshly birth . Which cover lightly , gentle earth . ( 11. 21–5 ) The loss is registered , but it ...
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... heaven after her death : Thou Youngest Virgin - Daughter of the Skies , Made in the last Promotion of the Blest . ( 11. 1-2 ) Anne's promotion does not surprise or distress the poet , as Milton's poet- figure is distressed or as the man ...
... heaven after her death : Thou Youngest Virgin - Daughter of the Skies , Made in the last Promotion of the Blest . ( 11. 1-2 ) Anne's promotion does not surprise or distress the poet , as Milton's poet- figure is distressed or as the man ...
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