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... poetic interest . While parents , in general , think too much of their offspring , and act and speak as if they were the creators of the spirits as well as the begetters of the bodies of their children ; and , to use the quaint language ...
... poetic interest . While parents , in general , think too much of their offspring , and act and speak as if they were the creators of the spirits as well as the begetters of the bodies of their children ; and , to use the quaint language ...
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... poets in the sights and sounds around us ; -the cataract , with its muffled roar and sullen plaint , being an emblem of Byron ; the fat , fair val- ley , winding along its winding stream , representing Thomson of the Seasons ; the proud ...
... poets in the sights and sounds around us ; -the cataract , with its muffled roar and sullen plaint , being an emblem of Byron ; the fat , fair val- ley , winding along its winding stream , representing Thomson of the Seasons ; the proud ...
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... poem , or an essay in Addison's Guardian ; now I dipped into a controversial treatise ; and now I dared to attack one of the " huge armfuls " of Theology , and forgot the whole world , while spelling out , with a little difficulty ...
... poem , or an essay in Addison's Guardian ; now I dipped into a controversial treatise ; and now I dared to attack one of the " huge armfuls " of Theology , and forgot the whole world , while spelling out , with a little difficulty ...
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... the glen to find a priest for her dying grandsire . In one thing I owed Henry Thompson a literary service . He taught me to abate my boyish reverence for Brougham , and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial 20 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
... the glen to find a priest for her dying grandsire . In one thing I owed Henry Thompson a literary service . He taught me to abate my boyish reverence for Brougham , and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial 20 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
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George Gilfillan. and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial life , how cold even in its passion and forced in its fury , was his much- vaunted style . He tried , too , to turn me from being , like my father , a keen Whig , into a ...
George Gilfillan. and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial life , how cold even in its passion and forced in its fury , was his much- vaunted style . He tried , too , to turn me from being , like my father , a keen Whig , into a ...
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