Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 49
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the distributors ...
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the distributors ...
Page 98
... discovery determined him to quit his occupation . About this time his nurse , who had always treated him as her own son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of those effects , which by her death were , as he imagined ...
... discovery determined him to quit his occupation . About this time his nurse , who had always treated him as her own son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of those effects , which by her death were , as he imagined ...
Page 418
... discovering that no such character as their Lorenzo ever yet disgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would ... discovered which betrays any thing like the father . In the second Night I find an expression which betrays ...
... discovering that no such character as their Lorenzo ever yet disgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would ... discovered which betrays any thing like the father . In the second Night I find an expression which betrays ...
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