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Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours.
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