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... such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth demanded my attention , and I here , with no smali pleasure , take leave ...
... such instructions and advantages from it , as it is well calculated and well able to bestow . For my own part , better and more important things henceforth demanded my attention , and I here , with no smali pleasure , take leave ...
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Far more than cost ; since all that he hath writ Leaves living art but page to serve his wit . Obiit Ano . Dni . 1616 . Æt . 53 , die 23 Apri . " And on his grave - stone underneath , is inscribed " Good friend , for Jesus ' sake ...
Far more than cost ; since all that he hath writ Leaves living art but page to serve his wit . Obiit Ano . Dni . 1616 . Æt . 53 , die 23 Apri . " And on his grave - stone underneath , is inscribed " Good friend , for Jesus ' sake ...
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Ay so you serve us , Till we serve you : but when you have our roses You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves , And mock us with our hareness . * Ravenous . They are not the things for which their names would make them pass .
Ay so you serve us , Till we serve you : but when you have our roses You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves , And mock us with our hareness . * Ravenous . They are not the things for which their names would make them pass .
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Love , whose month is ever May , Spied a blossom , passing fair , Playing in the wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ; That the lover , sick to death , Wish'd himself the heaven's breath .
Love , whose month is ever May , Spied a blossom , passing fair , Playing in the wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ; That the lover , sick to death , Wish'd himself the heaven's breath .
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... Faster than gnats in cobwebs : But her eyes ,How could he see to do them ? having made one , Methinks , it should have power to steal both his , And leave itself unfurnish'd . SUCCESSFUL LOVER COMPARED TO A CONQUEROR .
... Faster than gnats in cobwebs : But her eyes ,How could he see to do them ? having made one , Methinks , it should have power to steal both his , And leave itself unfurnish'd . SUCCESSFUL LOVER COMPARED TO A CONQUEROR .
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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