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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Jamque et Here pio Vesuvina inoendia oantu

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
Dr. Johnson has two slight mistakes in his « Life of Gray.'He says that they quarrelled at Florence and parted, instead ofReggio. He says also, that Gray began his poem 'De Prin~cipiis Cogitandi ' after his return: but it was oommenoed in toewinter of 1740, at Florence.