Life, by J. ForsterChapman and Hall, 1876 - 4 psl. |
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... the lesson . Observing which too late , he turned the whole school out into the playground . Get along , ' said he ; ' I have rescued one Poet out of your jaws . ' ( • CONTENTS . BOOK FIRST . 1775-1797 . ÆT . 1-22 PREFACE . ix.
... the lesson . Observing which too late , he turned the whole school out into the playground . Get along , ' said he ; ' I have rescued one Poet out of your jaws . ' ( • CONTENTS . BOOK FIRST . 1775-1797 . ÆT . 1-22 PREFACE . ix.
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... poet , and there is hardly exaggeration in the saying of one of his American admirers , that , excepting Shakespeare , no other writer has furnished us with so many or so delicate aphorisms of hu- man nature , his faults lie more upon ...
... poet , and there is hardly exaggeration in the saying of one of his American admirers , that , excepting Shakespeare , no other writer has furnished us with so many or so delicate aphorisms of hu- man nature , his faults lie more upon ...
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... poet and scholar of the vast superiority of its literature , and derived from it an influence that in his own original writing became strikingly visible . He is one of the dozen men in a generation who can be said to have read Plato ...
... poet and scholar of the vast superiority of its literature , and derived from it an influence that in his own original writing became strikingly visible . He is one of the dozen men in a generation who can be said to have read Plato ...
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... poet's life is to be recorded . While still in the school , and not more than fourteen , he had written his first original verses ; made upon a cousin's marriage , at her own request ; 18 Book I. WARWICK , RUGBY , OXFORD , SWANSEA .
... poet's life is to be recorded . While still in the school , and not more than fourteen , he had written his first original verses ; made upon a cousin's marriage , at her own request ; 18 Book I. WARWICK , RUGBY , OXFORD , SWANSEA .
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... poets whom the general dulness had thrown into prominence since the deaths of Goldsmith and Gray . As yet the voice of Cowper had but faintly been heard ; Burns had still to be naturalised in England ; while Wordsworth , Coleridge ...
... poets whom the general dulness had thrown into prominence since the deaths of Goldsmith and Gray . As yet the voice of Cowper had but faintly been heard ; Burns had still to be naturalised in England ; while Wordsworth , Coleridge ...
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