If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
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The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.
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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
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The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
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