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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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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
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. S., Anglo-Saxon. Arc., Milton's _Arcades_. C. T., Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_. Cf. (_confer_), compare. D. V., Goldsmith's _Deserted Village_. Ep., Epistle, Epode. Foll., following. F. Q., Spenser's _Faërie Queene_. H., Haven's _Rhetoric_ (Harper's edition). Hales, _Longer English Poems_, edited by Rev. J. W. Hales (London,1872). Il Pens., Milton's _Il Penseroso_. L'All., Milton's _L'Allegro_. Ol., Pindar's _Olympian Odes_. P. L., Milton's _Paradise Lost_. P. R., Milton's _Paradise Regained_. S. A., Milton's _Samson Agonistes_. Shakes. Gr., Abbott's _Shakespearian Grammar_ (the references are to_sections_, not pages). Shep. Kal., Spenser's _Shepherd's Kalendar_. st., stanza. Wb., Webster's Dictionary (last revised quarto edition). Worc., Worcester's Dictionary (quarto edition). Other abbreviations (names of books in the Bible, plays ofShakespeare, works of Ovid, Virgil, and Horace, etc.) need noexplanation.
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