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... seems to have had no basis - he was the son of a gentleman in Swansea whose income , Goldsmith tells us , ' arose from a partnership in a glass - house ' . He was sent down from Oxford , spent a short time in the army and then quit this ...
... seems to have had no basis - he was the son of a gentleman in Swansea whose income , Goldsmith tells us , ' arose from a partnership in a glass - house ' . He was sent down from Oxford , spent a short time in the army and then quit this ...
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Pat Rogers. Vanish the woods : the dim - seen river seems , Sullen and slow , to roll the misty wave . ( 717-20 ) The ... Seem to the shivering sailor from afar , Shapeless and white , an atmosphere of clouds . Projected huge and horrid o ...
Pat Rogers. Vanish the woods : the dim - seen river seems , Sullen and slow , to roll the misty wave . ( 717-20 ) The ... Seem to the shivering sailor from afar , Shapeless and white , an atmosphere of clouds . Projected huge and horrid o ...
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... seem out of touch with one another . There is a poet in Bedford , one in Cambridge , one in Northampton , one in ... seems donnish . But though both brothers knew the right people and thought the right things , they were incapable of ...
... seem out of touch with one another . There is a poet in Bedford , one in Cambridge , one in Northampton , one in ... seems donnish . But though both brothers knew the right people and thought the right things , they were incapable of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Copyright | |
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