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" How use 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, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 27
1823
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 51

1821 - 690 pages
...shadowy desart, unfrequented wood*, He better brook'd than flourishing peopled towns ; There could he sit alone, unseen of any, , And to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune his distresses, and record his woes." It would be useless to multiply instances in prcof of this doctrine,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record 3 my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...shadowy desert, unfrequented woofls, **, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.4 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.4 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...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 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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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...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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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
...This shadowy desart, unfrequented woods, I better brook. than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...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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