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    First pSonnet 94 can be understood as Shakespeare’s meditation on the giving and receiving of advice. The sonnet has us compare the potential benefit the intended readers--the “unmoved” (134)--might receive from allowing themselves to be open enough to attend to the narrator’s argument, versus the real harm, or pain, they thereby experience from having allowed their “praiseworthy” status to be manipulated into becoming a new found source of worry for them.aragraph:

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    First pSonnet 94 can be understood as Shakespeare’s meditation on the giving and receiving of advice. The sonnet has us compare the potential benefit the intended readers--the “unmoved” (134)--might receive from allowing themselves to be open enough to attend to the narrator’s argument, versus the real harm, or pain, they thereby experience from having allowed their “praiseworthy” status to be manipulated into becoming a new found source of worry for them.aragraph:

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    Stone Deaf To Flowered Prose (On Shakespeare's Sonnet # 94) (March 2002 Scanned)

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston
    First pSonnet 94 can be understood as Shakespeare’s meditation on the giving and receiving of advice. The sonnet has us compare the potential benefit the intended readers--the “unmoved” (134)--might receive from allowing themselves to be open enough to attend to the narrator’s argument, versus the real harm, or pain, they thereby experience from having allowed their “praiseworthy” status to be manipulated into becoming a new found source of worry for them.aragraph:

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