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Lesse (lĕs`ə), river, c.50 mi (80 km) long, rising in the Ardennes, SE Belgium, and flowing northwest to join the Meuse River near Dinant. It passes in its middle course through underground limestone caves. |
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Contract-business specialist Lesse Barnett helped Williams adjust her business plan to make the financial projections more thorough. No man is an island, intire of it selfe; every man a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man's death diminishes me, because am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. then provides an extremely long gloss to "for ever," the crux of which concerns the immortality of poetry: "wherefore it is sayd, that Achilles had never bene so famous, as he is, but for Homeres immortal verses"--an argument that "being declared in a most eloquent Oration of Tullies, is of Petrarch no lesse worthley sette forth in a sonet" (180). |
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