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i may there discover…

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the wondrous power which attracts the needle

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commence this laborious voyage with the joy…

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a child feels when he embarks in a little boat

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success shall…

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crown my endeavours

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untamed…

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yet obedient element

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one man’s life or death…

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is but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge I sought

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let me reveal my tale…

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and you will dash the cup from your lips

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i shall kill…

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no albatross

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draw inexhaustible…

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stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me

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i was their play…

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thing and idol

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innocent and helpless creature…

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bestowed on them by heaven

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guided by a…

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silken cord

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crown of…

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distinction

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heaven-…

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sent

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celestial stamp…

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in all her features

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pretty…

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present

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looked upon Elizabeth as mine…

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mine to protect, and love, and cherish

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her countenance expressed…

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affection even in her death

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the brightness of a…

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beloved eye can have been extinguished

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19
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high white…

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steeple of the town

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20
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conducted to my…

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solitary apartment

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m. krempe was a little squat man with gruff voice and a repulsive countenance

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did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits

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his person was short, but remarkably erect;…

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and his voice was the sweetest I had ever heard

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the stars often disappeared in the light of morning…

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whilst i was yet engaged in my laboratory

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24
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solely…

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wrapt up in this

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25
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a churchyard was to me…

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merely the receptacle of bodies

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26
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forced to spend days and nights in…

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vaults and charnel-houses

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how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge…

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and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow

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28
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my person had become…

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emaciated with confinement

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29
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my cheek had grown…

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pale with study

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30
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i pursued…

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nature to her hiding places

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in a solitary chamber…

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or rather a cell

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32
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it was on a dreary…

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night

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anxiety that almost…

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amounted to agony

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34
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rain pattered…

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dismally

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candle was nearly…

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burnt out

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half-extinguished…

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light

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hair was a…

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lustrous black

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teeth of a…

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pearly whiteness

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breathless horror and disgust…

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filled my heart

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dim and yellow…

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light of the moon

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dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space…

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now became a hell to me

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drenched by the rain which poured from a…

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black and comfortless sky

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if you were in an ill-humour…

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one glance from justine could dissipate it

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justine was the most grateful…

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little creature

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by the solemnity of her feelings…

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exquisitely beautiful

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god knows how entirely…

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i am innocent

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unhappy…

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victim

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i commit my cause to the justice of my…

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judges, yet i see no room for hope

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begone, vile…

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insect

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wretched…

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devil

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be calm…

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i entreat you to hear me

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i ought to be thy adam…

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but i am rather the fallen angel

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i was benevolent and good; misery…

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made me fiend

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palaces…

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i beheld in the village

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so low that i could with difficulty…

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sit upright

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agreeable…

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asylum

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barbarity of…

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man

58
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crept from my…

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kennel

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exposed by a…

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pig-sty

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gentle…

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beings

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lovely…

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creatures

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i should first win their favour…

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and afterwards their love

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pleasant showers and…

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genial warmth of spring

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my spirits were elevated by the…

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enchanting appearance of nature

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do not desert me in the…

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hour of my trial

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felix darted forward with…

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supernatural force

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tore me away from his father…

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to whose knees i clung

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dashed me to the ground and…

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struck me violently with a stick

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i could tear him limb from limb…

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as the lion rends the antelope

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i waited with forced imaptience until the moon…

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had sunk to commence my operations

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blast tore along like a…

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mighty avalanche

72
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produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that…

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burst all bounds of reason and reflection

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danced with…

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fury

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wind fanned…

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the fire

75
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flames… licked it with their…

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forked and destroying tongues

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this little creature was…

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unprejudiced

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joint wickedness might…

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desolate the world

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i am malicious because…

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i am miserable

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if any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me…

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i should return them a hundred and hundred fold

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creature of another sex…

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but as hideous as myself

81
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one of the remotest of…

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the Orkneys

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scene of my…

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labours

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soil was…

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barren

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inhabitants…

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gaunt and scraggy limbs

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vegetables and bread…

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when they indulged in such luxuries

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thatch had fallen in, walls were un…

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plastered, door was off its hinges

87
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hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which i gave…

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so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of me

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race of…

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devils

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you are my creator but…

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i am your master - obey!

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i shall be with you…

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on your wedding night

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destruction of the best hope and….

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purest creature of earth

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her pale and distorted features…

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half covered by her hair

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i found myself at the…

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cemetery

94
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her furies possessed me…

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as i concluded and rage choked my utterance

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in my sleep i saw…

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my friend, my wife, and my beloved country

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haunted even in…

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my waking hours

97
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satisfy my revenge…

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in his death

98
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blood congeal with horror like that which…

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even now curdles mine

99
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learn my miseries and…

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do not seek to increase your own

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destitute of every hope of…

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consolation

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his shattered…

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spirit

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what a glorious creature he must have been in the days of his prosperity…

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when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin

103
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i could not rank myself with the…

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herd of common projectors

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like the archangel…

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who aspired to eternal omnipotence, i am chained in an eternal hell

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surrounded by…

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mountains of ice

106
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if we are lost…

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my mad schemes are the cause

107
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still surrounded by mountains of ice…

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still in imminent danger

108
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immured…

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in ice

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was an honourable…

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undertaking

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my hopes are blasted…

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by cowardice and indecision

111
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seek happiness in…

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tranquility and avoid ambition

112
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uncouth and distorted…

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in its proportions

113
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never did i behold a vision…

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as horrible as his face

114
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yet even that enemy of god and man…

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had friends

115
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but it is true that i…

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am a wretch

116
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i shall ascend…

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my funeral pile

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exult in the agony of the…

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torturing flames

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