Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 139
... less melancholy , was less affect- ing , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
... less melancholy , was less affect- ing , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
Page 281
... less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an unexpected death , for she had lasted to ...
... less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an unexpected death , for she had lasted to ...
Page 459
... less lucky , as when , in his Night Thoughts , having it dropped into his mind , that the orbs , floating in space , might be called the cluster of Creation , he thinks on a cluster of grapes , and says , that they all hang on the great ...
... less lucky , as when , in his Night Thoughts , having it dropped into his mind , that the orbs , floating in space , might be called the cluster of Creation , he thinks on a cluster of grapes , and says , that they all hang on the great ...
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