Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page ix
... father , a disciple of Priestley and an ardent Reformer , not only threw themselves with enthusiasm into the ... father's side related to Frederic Denison Maurice ; on ix BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR BIRKBECK HILL, WITH BIBLIO- GRAPHY.
... father , a disciple of Priestley and an ardent Reformer , not only threw themselves with enthusiasm into the ... father's side related to Frederic Denison Maurice ; on ix BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR BIRKBECK HILL, WITH BIBLIO- GRAPHY.
Page x
... fathers he clung tenaciously throughout his life . From his father he inherited , in addition to a strong moral rectitude , a love of justice , a hatred of tyrannies and shams , and a sympathy with the oppressed . ' Beg of Arthur not to ...
... fathers he clung tenaciously throughout his life . From his father he inherited , in addition to a strong moral rectitude , a love of justice , a hatred of tyrannies and shams , and a sympathy with the oppressed . ' Beg of Arthur not to ...
Page xi
... father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went . Thoroughness and good discipline were achieved : individuality and intelligence were encouraged . Yet ...
... father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went . Thoroughness and good discipline were achieved : individuality and intelligence were encouraged . Yet ...
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... father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar of laughter which burst forth nearly overwhelmed me . The author of The Earthly Paradise almost overturned his ...
... father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar of laughter which burst forth nearly overwhelmed me . The author of The Earthly Paradise almost overturned his ...
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... father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter of Edward Scott , a solicitor of Wigan in ...
... father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter of Edward Scott , a solicitor of Wigan in ...
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