The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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5543 world inhabited = inhabited world
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5544 nipping, painful
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5545 equivalent
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5546 from the malign stars
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5547 New England
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5548 Samoed shore = Siberia
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5549 i.e., the cave of the winds, in which Aeolus, god of the winds, kept the winds in confinement, when they were not blowing
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5550 burst of wind
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5551 a north wind
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5552 a north wind
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5553 a north wind
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5554 a north wind
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5555 the opposite
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5556 a south wind
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5557 a south wind
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5558 Sierra Leone, in Africa
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5559 thwart of = across
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5560 equally
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5561 Euras/Levant is an east wind
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5562 Ponent/Zephyr is a west wind
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5563 coming from the horizon: east/west rather than north/south
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5564 clamor, loud/harsh sound
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5565 a southeast wind
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5566 a southwest wind
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5567 riot, violence
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5568 irrational creatures [probably, from Latin influence, four syllables, first and third accented]
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5569 settled aversion, contrariety of feeling/disposition
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5570 leaving off
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5571 fierce, savage
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5572 from without = in addition to
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5573 “he, Adam, sought”
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5574 from, instead of
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5575 recently
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5576 from, instead of
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5577 it would be well/all right
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5578 want to
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5579 satisfy, be useful, answer the requirements, meet the needs of the case, suit, fit
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5580 multiplied, spread
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5581 follow
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5582 curse
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5583 mine own = mine own curses
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5584 remain, continue
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5585 flowing back
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5586 surge, turn back
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5587 fall, descend
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5588 proper order
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5589 advance
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5590 luxurious, highly pleasing
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5591 agreed
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5592 surrender
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5593 himself, Adam
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5594 himself, Adam
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5595 captiously object to/find fault with
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5596 permission
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5597 himself, Adam
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5598 receive, permit
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5599 choice
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5600 procreated, generated
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5601 judgment
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5602 settled, determined
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5603 this day = today
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5604 live too long
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5605 deprived of sensation, unconscious
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5606 confident, safe, free from fear/anxiety
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5607 completely, entirely
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5608 corporeal clod = earthen body
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5609 relieve, calm
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5610 fated, destined
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5611 considered, thought
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5612 fact, proof
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5613 severity
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5614 all causes else = all other causes
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5615 absorption, taking in
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5616 i.e., causes act according to the capacity of what they work upon; what the cause of something may be capable of is, in this sense, irrelevant
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5617 depriving, taking away
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5618 inside
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5619 outside
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5620 turning/spinning motion
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5621 immaterial (spiritual) rather than material (bodily)
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5622 alone
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5623 use up, consume
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5624 corrupted
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5625 along with me, just as I do/have
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5626 of necessity
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5627 falls
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5628 foolish
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5629 himself, Adam
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5630 shared
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5631 Eve
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5632 similar
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5633 sentence, judgment
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5634 conscience
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5635 before
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5636 noxious exhalations/vapors
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5637 Adam’s
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5638 exhibited, showed
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5639 already announced/proclaimed
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5640 [four syllables, first and third accented: ACCepTABle]
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5641 sets right
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5642 not long ago
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5643 ring out, reëcho
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5644 attempted
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5645 suits
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5646 allied
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5647 as Satan is
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5648 is missing
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5649 held, as if a mask or screen, in front of her, to conceal the “hellish falsehood” behind it
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5650 except
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5651 would have
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5652 remained
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5653 vagrant, wanton, uncertain
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5655 overpower, outdo, get the better of
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5656 imagined by me
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5657 not understood by me
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5658 (1) the left side, (2) darkly suspicious/dishonest/corrupt
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5659 withdrawn, taken
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5660 unnecessary, superfluous [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]
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5661 i.e., his correct/right/true number is one (only himself), not two (with her—superfluously—added)
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5662 like
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5663 procreate
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5664 been befallen = happened, occurred
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5665 strait conjunction = narrow connection (“conjunction” carrying heavy sexual overtones)
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5666 proper, suitable
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5667 the woman
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5668 obstinacy, contrariness, wickedness
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5669 a far worse = a far worse man than himself
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5670 him
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5671 (1) fierce, cruel, (2) clever
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5672 antagonist, enemy
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5673 destroy
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5674 thus, thereby
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5675 begged earnestly for
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5676 amity, end of hostilities
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5677 renounce, abandon
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5678 unknowingly
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5679 deprive
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5680 whereon I live = of that upon which I live
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5681 mild, generous, courteous
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5682 extreme, greatest
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5683 support
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5684 forsaken, abandoned
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5685 go, turn
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5686 exist, live
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5687 definite, fixed, exact
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5688 fall, descend
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5689 abject, humble
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5690 (1) condition, state, (2) pledge, undertaking
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5691 (1) stationary, fixed, (2) unalterable, not subject to change
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5692 lamented, deeply regretted
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5693 worked
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5694 compassion, pity, sorrow
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5695 recently
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5696 quickly
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5697 moral weakness, instability of mind
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5698 weaker
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5699 entrusted
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5700 imperiled, made subject/open to danger (since he allowed her to go to her labor alone that day)
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5701 fight
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5702 services, duties, attentions
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5703 proclaimed
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5704 apprehend, understand
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5705 transmitted
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5706 just event = equitable/impartial/rightful result/outcome
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5707 defrauded, beguiled of
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5708 (1) proper, (2) necessary, (3) owed
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5709 to be depressed/sick/weak
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5710 person, body: Eve herself
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5711 short work (of it)
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5712 function, service
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5713 intense, passionate, excited
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5714 maintained, experienced
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5715 moved, ruled, diverted (turned)
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5716 more attentive = steadier
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5717 despises
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5718 sentence, judgment
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5719 willful disobedience, perversity
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5720 smash, destroy, break
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5721 resolved/decided on
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5722 thus
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5723 (1) concerns [verb], (2) pleases [verb]
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5724 bitterness, spitefulness
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5725 spite
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5726 resistance
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5727 disintegration, decomposition
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5728 slantwise
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5729 struck and glided, passed quickly
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5730 (1) well-timed, (2) early
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5731 harsh, pitiless
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5732 unstable, changeable
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5733 dwelling, cover
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5734 of/belonging to the day
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5735 the sun
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5736 dry
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5737 rouse, excite
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5738 rub, harass
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5739 by friction
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5740 recently
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5741 pushing, shoving, knocking against
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5742 violent, harsh
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5743 kindle
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5744 transverse
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5745 if we pray to Him
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5746 conveniently
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5747 going
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5748 often, habitually
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5749 [four syllables, first and third accented]
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5750 i.e., the prayers
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5751 i.e., Adam and Eve
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5752 golden covering placed over the Ark of the Covenant; regarded as God’s resting place and thus the seat of mercy
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5753 anticipatory
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5754 reborn, reformed, restored
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5755 [five syllables, second and fourth accented]
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5756 demeanor
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5757 inferior, poor
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5758 Prometheus’ son, and the “Noah” of classical myth
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5759 Deucalion’s wife
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5760 [adjective]
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5761 a Titan, daughter of Gaia (earth) by Zeus: godd
ess of justice
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5762 straying, wandering
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5763 the prayers
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5764 having no material being/body
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5765 smoked
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5766 near
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5767 Christ
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5768 container in which incense is burned
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5769 tilling, cultivating
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5770 atonement, expiation, sacrifice
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5771 implant, transfer
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5772 i.e., the good works of man
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5773 i.e., the not good works of man
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5774 accept me = receive me with favor
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5775 darkening of His countenance
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5776 Adam
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5777 purge him off = purify him away
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5778 disorder, derangement
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5779 dispose him = make him fit
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5780 happiness
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5781 foolishly
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5782 immortality
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5783 make eternal/everlasting
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5784 tested
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5785 misery, distress, vexation
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5786 renewal of the body at the Resurrection
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5787 restores (yields up), repays, rewards, produces
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5788 sinning
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5789 not long ago
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5790 rank, position
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5791 Horeb/Mt. Sinai
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5792 general doom = Judgment Day
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5793 mythical flower that never fades
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5794 going, proceeding
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5795 forbidden
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5796 inward promptings, workings
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5797 but for a longer period
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5798 have known
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5799 left to itself
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5800 command
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5801 or in = whether on
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5802 i.e., the Garden of Eden, about to become vacant
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5803 pity
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5804 proclaim, announce
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5805 lose heart/courage, droop
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5806 mournful
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5807 stated, pressed
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5808 miserable
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5809 intermingle, blend in
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5810 welcoming place [four syllables, first and third accented]
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5811 band
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5812 double-faced god of gates