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... least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the funda 19 % earlier men works forw qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , enius , who yet , by a ...
... least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the funda 19 % earlier men works forw qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , enius , who yet , by a ...
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... least as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get ; 349 O how transform❜d ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'☎ ** - Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : * 11 1477 1100 From ...
... least as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get ; 349 O how transform❜d ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'☎ ** - Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : * 11 1477 1100 From ...
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... least of pedantry . " Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be con- fessed without disgrace . Milton was not a man who could become mean by a mean employ- ment . This , however , his warmest ...
... least of pedantry . " Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be con- fessed without disgrace . Milton was not a man who could become mean by a mean employ- ment . This , however , his warmest ...
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... least for part of the time , no regular attend- ant . This gave opportunity to observations and reports . Mr. Philips observes , that there was a very remarkable circumstance in the composure of " Paradise Lost , which I have a ...
... least for part of the time , no regular attend- ant . This gave opportunity to observations and reports . Mr. Philips observes , that there was a very remarkable circumstance in the composure of " Paradise Lost , which I have a ...
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... least more reasonable than his dread of decaying na- ture , or a frigid zone , for general causes must operate uniformly in a general abatement of mental power ; if less could be performed by the writer , less likewise would content the ...
... least more reasonable than his dread of decaying na- ture , or a frigid zone , for general causes must operate uniformly in a general abatement of mental power ; if less could be performed by the writer , less likewise would content the ...
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