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No voice will tell: No God, no Deamon of severe response Deigns to reply from heaven or from Hell.—

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

But that great man no deed of grace Deigns to bestow on me.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

And yet It shows base metal when the subject-wight Deigns not to hearken to the chief in power.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

In the "Deformed Transformed" it is made to rhyme with no less, improperly:— "Clay, not dead but soulless, Though no mortal man would choose thee, An immortal no less Deigns not to refuse thee."

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Deigns to reply from Heaven or from Hell.—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney