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«With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.»
«The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
nook, nooks, sequester, sequestered, serenity, sweet, The Sweet
«Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way»
Author: Thomas Gray
(Poet)
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Keep cool, noiseless, sequester, sequestered, stray, vale, vales
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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all ages, British, buckets, classic, collection, immense, languages, Modern Age, Modern English, obsolete, pools, repair, rill, scantiest, scanty, sequester, sequestered, swell, their own language, The Modern Age, undefiled, volumes, wherewith
«These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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emolument, filed, His Majesty, ingenious, issued, legal profession, Liege, machines, nook, nooks, offices, practitioner, practitioners, sequester, sequestered, signed
«Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
eyed, flowery, frantic, maid, romantic, sequester, sequestered
«In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate»
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