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... poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has ...
... poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has ...
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... poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in the " Mourning Bride ” : --- ALMERIA . It was a fancied noise : for all is hushed . LEONORA . It bore the accent of a human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or ...
... poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in the " Mourning Bride ” : --- ALMERIA . It was a fancied noise : for all is hushed . LEONORA . It bore the accent of a human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or ...
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... poetical trade in a joint stock , would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an unlicensed ad- venturer , notwithstanding I disturbed none of their factories , nor imported any goods they have ever dealt in . " He had lived in ...
... poetical trade in a joint stock , would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an unlicensed ad- venturer , notwithstanding I disturbed none of their factories , nor imported any goods they have ever dealt in . " He had lived in ...
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... poetical spirit . Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work , the general character must always remain . The original con- stitution ...
... poetical spirit . Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work , the general character must always remain . The original con- stitution ...
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... poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put " January and May " and the " Prologue of the Wife of Bath " into modern English . He translated likewise the Epistle of ...
... poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put " January and May " and the " Prologue of the Wife of Bath " into modern English . He translated likewise the Epistle of ...
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