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His muse had no objec tion to a russet attire ; but she turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney - sweeper on May - day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold ...
His muse had no objec tion to a russet attire ; but she turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney - sweeper on May - day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold ...
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A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity , embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their ...
A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity , embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their ...
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Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious mes- sages ...
Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious mes- sages ...
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He fought their perilous battles ; but he turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had vanquished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He therefore joined the Independents ...
He fought their perilous battles ; but he turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had vanquished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He therefore joined the Independents ...
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Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intel- lect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old culti vation , but yielding neither flowers nor ...
Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intel- lect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old culti vation , but yielding neither flowers nor ...
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