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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes 7S. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 0 thou, that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,...
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The Discarded Son: Or, Haunt of the Banditti. A Tale ...

Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 352 pages
...This shadowing desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopl'd towns, Here I cm sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses) and record my woes.' Scarcely had the sound of my own voice ceased to vibrato on my ear, ere another, softer and more sweet...
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Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With ..., Volume 1

Francis Douce - 1807 - 552 pages
...be read elliptically. Besides, we had "friar Patrick's cell " before in p. 263. Sc. 4. p. 280. VAL. And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. It has been already observed that this term refers to the singing of birds. It should have been added...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 78, Part 1; Volume 103

1808 - 646 pages
...also, no mean authority in any disquisition upon a subject of this kind, makes use of the s>.me idea. "And, to the Nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes." Two Gent, of Verona, A. 5. S. 4. Mr. Fox was an able, and occasionally an elegant debater in the House...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desart, unfrequented woods, I better brook. than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.* O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 460 pages
...unfreqnented woods, I better brook ilian Aouriahing peopled towus : _ Here can I sit alone, uuseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record* my woes. 0 thou that dost inhahit in my breast, Leave not the mausion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,...
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Herodotus, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. T. circumstanced, he made a treaty of alliance with Amasis, king of ^Egypt, which was cemented by various...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...&c. GewgicIV., 5I 1—515. & ' The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better love than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. O, thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,...
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