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although detected welcome still reminding me through every ill of the abodes of men
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and if ye marvel charles forgot to thank his tale he wondered not the king had been an hour asleep
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we loved sir used to meet how sad and bad and mad it was but then how it was sweet
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did essay to extricate remembrance from the clay whose minglings might confuse a newton's thought
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i pass each day where dante's bones are laid a little cupola more neat than solemn protects his dust
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che sono in cielo il sole e l'altre stelle dentro da lor si crede il paradiso pensar ben dei che ogni terren piacere
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by our own spirits are we deified we poets in our youth begin in gladness but thereof come in the end despondency and madness
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thy godlike crime was to be kind to render with thy precepts less the sum of human wretchedness
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an idol calf his followers did engrave but had they raised this awe-commanding form then had they with less guilt their work adored
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from whose word israel took god pronounce the law in stone israel left egypt cleave the sea in stone
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for of fortunes sharp adversitee the worst kinde of infortune is this a man to have ben in prosperitee
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line : love which too soon the soft heart apprehends seized him for the fair form the which was there torn from me and even yet the mode offends
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doge nephew the high roman and put her from him
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they are not numerous nor yet too few for their great purpose they have arms and means and hearts and hopes and faith and patient courage
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would he were come for i alone have power upon his troubled spirit
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to virtue in your sex and dignity in ours but let them look to it who have saved him
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our wedlock was not of this sort you had freedom from me to choose and urged in answer your father's choice
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let me but prosper and i make this city free and immortal and our house's name worthier of what you were now and hereafter
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a slave insults me i require his punishment from his proud master's hands if he refuse it the offence grows his and let him answer it
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hark what is that or who at such a moment
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one of the giunta lord president 'twere best proceed to judgment there is no more to be drawn from these men
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leave them unto their thoughts and let us now address our own above lead on we are ready
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i would have stood alone amidst your tombs now you may flock round mine and trample on it as you have done upon my heart while living
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his words are inarticulate but the voice swells up like muttered thunder would we could but gather a sole sentence
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if we should fail we fail but screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail
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vice without splendour sin without relief even from the gloss of love to smooth it o'er but in its stead coarse lusts of habitude etc
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because the last we saw here had a tustle and ne'er would have got into heaven's good graces had he not flung his head in all our faces
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to turn him here and there for some resource {and found no better counsel from his peers and claimed the help of his celestial peers
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[which into hollow engines long and round thick-rammed at th' other bore with touch of fire dilated and infuriate etc
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one leaf from southey's laurels may explode all his combustibles 'an ass by god
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di due vaghe donzelle oneste accorte lieti e miseri padri il ciel ne feo l' una e l' altra veggendo ambe chiedeo
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ma tu almeno potrai dalla gelosa irremeabil soglia ove s' asconde la sua tenera udir voce pietosa
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io verso un flume d' amarissim' onde corro a quel marmo in cui la figlia or posa batto e ribatto ma nessun risponde
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but thou at least from out the jealous door which shuts between your never-meeting eyes may'st hear her sweet and pious voice once more
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i to the marble where my daughter lies rush the swoln flood of bitterness i pour and knock and knock and knock but none replies
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wear fingal thy trapping his accomplishments his
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and thy country convince half an age's contempt was an error of fame and that hal is the rascaliest sweetest young prince
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but left long wrecks behind them and again borne on our old unchanged career we move thou tendest wildly onward to the main
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he'll sadly shiver and droop for ever shorn of the plumage which sped his spring
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you have not waited till tired and hated all passions sated
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sir rich i wish all these people were d d with my marriage [exeunt
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sar as i have said let all dispose their hours till midnight when again we pray your presence
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sar i know each glance of those ionic eyes which said thou wouldst not leave me
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sal for they are many whom thy father left in heritage are loud in wrath against thee
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sal more than is glorious: of the last far less than the king recks of
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for what to furnish imposts for a revel or multiplied extortions for a minion
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sal a fitting one for the resumption of thy yet unslept-off revels
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here's that which deified him let it now humanise thee my surly chiding brother pledge me to the greek god
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sal more worthy of a people and their prince than songs and lutes and feasts and concubines
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sal short of the duties of a king and therefore they say thou art unfit to be a monarch
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what they have found me they belie that which they yet may find me shall defy their wish to speak it worse and let them thank themselves
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myr will overflow in words unconsciously but when another speaks of greeks it wounds me
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pan of all thy faithful subjects who will rally round thee and thine
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bel yon earliest and the brightest which so quivers as it would quit its place in the blue ether
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bel we have the privilege to approach the presence but found the monarch absent
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sar what hinders me from cleaving you in twain audacious brawlers
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sar and dinned and deafened with dead men and baal and all chaldea's starry mysteries
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arb but it has touched me and whate'er betide i will no further on
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arb and marshalled me the way in all their brightness i would not follow
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arb there is more peril in your subtle spirit than in a phalanx
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pan repair to your respective satrapies of babylon and media
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bel that grate the palace which is now our prison no further
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arb the realm itself in all its wide extension yawns dungeons at each step for thee and me
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bel the free air of the city and we'll shorten the journey
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sal as he who treads on flowers is from the adder twined round their roots
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sal dispense with me i am no wassailer command me in all service save the bacchant's
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sar methinks it is the same within these walls as on the river's brink
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sar the gentle and the austere are both against me and urge me to revenge
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zam all hearts are happy and all voices bless the king of peace who holds a world in jubilee
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[zames and the guests kneel and exclaim mightier than his father baal the god sardanapalus
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sar the path still open and communication left 'twixt the palace and the phalanx
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pan when i late left him and i have no fear our troops were steady and the phalanx formed
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sar brought from the spoils of india but be speedy [exit sfero
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myr 'twere not the first greek girl had trod the path i will await here your return
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myr except survive what i have loved to be a rebel's booty: forth and do your bravest
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myr who fulminate o'er my father's land protect him were you sent by the king
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myr to watch before the apartment of the women [exit officer
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pan myrrha without delay we must not lose a moment all that's left us now
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pan and beg you to live on for his sake till he can rejoin you
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sar now call upon thy planets will they shoot from the sky to preserve their seer and credit
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myrrha return and i obey you though in disobedience to the monarch [exit pania
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i live again from henceforth the goblet i reserve for hours of love but war on water
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sar and yet it feels a little stiff and painful now i am cooler
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sal which were he not my sister's lord but now i have no time: thou lovest the king
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sar 'tis flesh grasp clasp yet closer till i feel myself that which i was
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sar and kings are but i did not deem it so i thought 'twas nothing
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myr unto the timid who anticipate that which may never be
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which stalks methinks between our souls and heaven and fetters us to earth at least the phantom whate'er it have to fear will not fear death
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sar dream though i know it now to be a dream what i have dreamt: and canst thou bear to hear it
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sar i tell you: after that these eyes were open i saw them in their flight for then they fled
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we were in an existence all apart from heaven or earth and rather let me see death all than such a being
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i can fix nothing further of my thoughts save that i longed for thee and sought for thee in all these agonies and woke and found thee
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sar now that i see thee once more what was seen seems nothing
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myr i watched by you: it was a heavy hour but an hour only
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sal ere you reply too readily and 'tis for your ear only
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sal 'tis not yet vacant and 'tis of its partner i come to speak with you
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sal at least i trust so: in a word the queen requests to see you ere you part for ever
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sar and that reproof comes heavier on my heart than but our hearts are not in our own power
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sar it was your will to see me ere you went from nineveh with
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zar and could have welcomed any grief save yours which gave me to behold your face again
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