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Scorn (the Cause of my Afflictions) I endeavour'd to conceal; yet, spite of all my Industry, this Melancholy, together with my plain Dress, was taken Notice of, and it was believ'd I mourn'd for Brafort.
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Scorn (the Cause of my Afflictions) I endeavour'd to conceal; yet, spite of all my Industry, this Melancholy, together with my plain Dress, was taken Notice of, and it was believ'd I mourn'd for Brafort.
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"This beast not unobserv'd by Nature fell," the poet states, "[h] is death was mourn'd by sympathy divine" (163-64).
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She mourn'd, whose fate such mourning ill deserv'd.
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Which, since thy flight fro hence, hath mourn'd like night,
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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Alcides mourn'd, and stifled sighs within his breast.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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And all the birds mourn'd that his blood was so spill'd.
Aunt Kitty's Stories Various
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And (world mourn'd) _Sidney_, warbling to the _Thames_,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Thus mourn'd the chief -- and no relief his regal state could bring.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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And "Ochiltree" leant o'er his staff, and mourn'd for "Auld lang syne!"
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 Various
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