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  • That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

    Whither Documents? 2008

  • That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • And he knew what I think is the most important truth of being an artist: that sometimes you must break your staff, and drown your books, o'erthrow all your charms, and stand before your your audience with only your own strength.

    O for a muse of fire Kat Howard 2009

  • And he knew what I think is the most important truth of being an artist: that sometimes you must break your staff, and drown your books, o'erthrow all your charms, and stand before your your audience with only your own strength.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Kat Howard 2009

  • That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

    John Lundberg: A Short History Of The Sonnet 2009

  • Wert thou to call the men of old time rude uncultured boors thou wouldst not err, seeing that they devised their hymns for festive occasions, for banquets, and to grace the board, a pleasure to catch the ear, shed o'er our life, but no man hath found a way to allay hated grief by music and the minstrel's varied strain, whence arise slaughters and fell strokes of fate to o'erthrow the homes of men.

    Medea 2008

  • O Paris, who didst utterly o'erthrow my home, here was thy ruin too and theirs, those countless mail-clad Danai.

    Helen 2008

  • O Paris, who didst utterly o'erthrow my home, here was thy ruin too and theirs, those countless mail-clad Danai.

    Helen 2008

  • Wert thou to call the men of old time rude uncultured boors thou wouldst not err, seeing that they devised their hymns for festive occasions, for banquets, and to grace the board, a pleasure to catch the ear, shed o'er our life, but no man hath found a way to allay hated grief by music and the minstrel's varied strain, whence arise slaughters and fell strokes of fate to o'erthrow the homes of men.

    Medea 2008

  • That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

    Any sympathy for the gay evangelicals? Ann Althouse 2006

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