Secondary,
author of prize peace essay,
presents
sword to Lieutenant-Colonel,
a fluent orator,
found to be in error.
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- You provide, in
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how apt we are to indulge prejudices in our
judgments
of one
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Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden
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even years after the official
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose embraces Clasp but wind that past thee
bloweth?
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"Begin, my flute, with me
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I've heard my
grandmother
say, that Heaven gives almonds
To those who have no teeth.
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OR OUGHT HAVE DONE, or have done
something
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden
wondrous
building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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MENALCAS
"It
profiteth
me naught, Amyntas mine,
That in your very heart you spurn me not,
If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets.
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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Chimene
And Rodrigue's arm
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3
Disaster
turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu.
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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"
Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd
His rosy eloquence, and thus inquired:
"Thou smooth-lipp'd serpent, surely high
inspired!
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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I Sir: there are a crew of
wretched
Soules
That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces
The great assay of Art.
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"
II
I looked there as the seasons wore,
And still his soul
continuously
upbore
Its life in theirs.
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If you by craft
contrive
to set me free,
Silver and gold, you'll have your fill of me,
Manors and fiefs, I'll give you all your need.
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"Is it
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(Omitting the first of the two
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couplets.
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And struggled and fumed
With outspread
clutching
fingers.
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On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy
hyacinth
hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
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XXXVII
They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325
That rang down a bare slope not far remote:
The barrows
glistered
bright with drops of rain,
Whistled the waggoner with merry note,
The cock far off sounded his clarion throat;
But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330
Only were told there stood a lonely cot
A long mile thence.
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Zourine
received
orders to cross the River Volga.
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Bent and The Dancing Master, I
whooping in a chair, and The Dowd
dropping
in from the clouds.
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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A pregnant
experiment towards something like this has already been seen--in George
Meredith's magnificent set of _Odes in
Contribution
to the Song of the
French History_.
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and then
We'll riot, man; for then, at last
"`We'll make with heaven a
contract
fair
To call, each hour, from town to town,
And carry the dead folks' souls up there,
And bring the unborn babies down!
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A
different
lot befel Rinaldo; who
Had chanced another pathway to pursue.
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XI
On your
midnight
pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.
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there did appear
A curious rainbow smiling there;
Which was the
covenant
that she
No more would drown mine eyes or me.
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<>, cantava, <
che '
marinari
in mezzo mar dismago;
tanto son di piacere a sentir piena!
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e
blisfulnesse
of mortel ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thou wanting, never son and heir
The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
By issue girt, yet can it bear,
Thou willing:--with such Deity,
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Yes, looking with
dreaming
eyes, I have found them sitting
under the olives, in their grave, strong, antique beauty--Etruscan
gods!
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Note: Ronsard's later
tributes
to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose mistress Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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The yellow apples glowed like fire,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Thou wilt tell _460
With the grimace of hate, how horrible
It was to meet my love when thine grew less;
Thou wilt admire how I could e'er address
Such
features
to love's work.
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Shelley |
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What shall
compensate
an ideal dimmed?
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In the
wandering
transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Such, father, is not (now) my theme--
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly
pride hath revell'd in--
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope--that fire of fire!
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and
Euphrates
floweth by,
And Gehons golden waves doe wash continually.
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On one condition thou shalt have the place
For thee I
seriously
intend the grace,
If thou 'lt on me a day or two attend,
As page of honour:--dost thou comprehend?
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned and
furbished
the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
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A thousand fronds of pliant willows hang by blue chain-patterned gates, 4 with a hundred warbling orioles
circling
Jianzhang Palace.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten
thousand
men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold defences stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Left alone with my mother, Marya
confided
to her part of her plans.
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" —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre
tentious
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Is that
trembling
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They
certainly
could not have worshiped in groves then.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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>>;
ond' elli: <
ch'i' solva il mio dovere anzi ch'i' mova:
giustizia
vuole e pieta mi ritene>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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He did not
understand
the domestic emotions.
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Kipling - Poems |
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(Knocked out of
professional
gravity, tramping across
flower-beds and shaking G's hands.
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Kipling - Poems |
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How can one ever get out of an
accusation
with such
a tone, summon witnesses or touch or convince?
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In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
She said: the pitying
audience
melt in tears; 90
But fate and Jove had stopped the baron's ears.
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Thou--if thou reckest aught of my command,
'Twere well done soon: but if thy sense be shut
From these my words, let thy
barbarian
hand
Fulfil by gesture the default of speech.
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We can picture Isabel, as they
'creep' along,
furtively
glancing round, and then producing her knife
with a smile so terrible that the old nurse can only fear that she is
delirious, as her sudden vigour would also suggest.
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Keats |
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"
IV
--"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say;
"I did not will a grave
Should end thy
pilgrimage
to-day,
But I, too, am a slave!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats |
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Flit, flit, o'er the fertile land
'Mid hovering insects' hums;
Fall into the sower's hand:
Then, when his harvest comes,
The seed and the song shall have
flowered
together.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each
corporall
Agent to this terrible Feat.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Vespero e gia cola dov' e sepolto
lo corpo dentro al quale io facea ombra;
Napoli l'ha, e da
Brandizio
e tolto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then Appius Claudius gnawed his lip, and the blood left his
cheek,
And thrice he
beckoned
with his hand, and thrice he strove to
speak;
And thrice the tossing Forum set up a frightful yell:
"See, see, thou dog!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Semblable aux visions pales qu'enfante l'ombre
Et qui nous
enchainent
les yeux,
La tete, avec l'amas de sa criniere sombre
Et de ses bijoux precieux,
Sur la table de nuit, comme une renoncule,
Repose, et, vide de pensers,
Un regard vague et blanc comme le crepuscule
S'echappe des yeux revulses.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There was no evil hidden in my life,
And yet, and yet, I would not have them know--
Am I not
floating
in a mist of light?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Of Argive
anguish!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Poscia che i cari e lucidi lapilli
ond' io vidi ingemmato il sesto lume
puoser silenzio a li angelici squilli,
udir mi parve un mormorar di fiume
che scende chiaro giu di pietra in pietra,
mostrando
l'uberta del suo cacume.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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UPON JULIA'S VOICE
When I thy singing next shall hear,
I'll wish I might turn all to ear,
To drink-in notes and numbers, such
As blessed souls can't hear too much
Then melted down, there let me lie
Entranced, and lost confusedly;
And by thy music
strucken
mute,
Die, and be turn'd into a Lute.
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Robert Herrick |
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Captain Nathan Hale, a
young man of twenty-one,
volunteered
to get this.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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gratefully
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lewis Carroll |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Aosta
Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;
But they said, "Don't you see she has run up a tree,
You
invidious
Old Man of Aosta?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And many women, sterile before
In several marriage-beds, have yet thereafter
Obtained
the mates from whom they could conceive
The baby-boys, and with sweet progeny
Grow rich.
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Lucretius |
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Believe me, 'tis the mass of men He loves;
And, where there is most sorrow and most want,
Where the high heart of man is trodden down
The most, 'tis not because He hides his face
From them in wrath, as
purblind
teachers prate:
Not so: there most is He, for there is He
Most needed.
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James Russell Lowell |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the shivering air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that
frightened
marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
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Wilde - Poems |
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ALCESTIS
_The scene
represents
the ancient Castle of_ ADMETUS _near Pherae
in Thessaly.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_Both_
declared
thee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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234 (return)
[ It is probable that the Suevi were
distinguished
from the rest of the Germans by a peculiar dialect, as well as by their dress and manners.
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Tacitus |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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