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... write a prize poem on the subject of Dr. Jenner , boldly opened with the invocation " Inoculation ! Heavenly maid , descend . " As the title of Crabbe's poem stands for the bane and not the antidote , he could not adopt the same method ...
... write a prize poem on the subject of Dr. Jenner , boldly opened with the invocation " Inoculation ! Heavenly maid , descend . " As the title of Crabbe's poem stands for the bane and not the antidote , he could not adopt the same method ...
Page 14
... write , was a hortus siccus indeed . Distinctness in painting the common growth of field and hedgerow may be said to have had its origin with Crabbe . Gray and Goldsmith had their own rare and special gifts to which Crabbe could lay no ...
... write , was a hortus siccus indeed . Distinctness in painting the common growth of field and hedgerow may be said to have had its origin with Crabbe . Gray and Goldsmith had their own rare and special gifts to which Crabbe could lay no ...
Page 15
... write . " But the time was bound to come when he must put his poetic quality to a final test . In London only could he hope to prove whether the verse , of which he was accumulating a store , was of a kind that men would care for . He ...
... write . " But the time was bound to come when he must put his poetic quality to a final test . In London only could he hope to prove whether the verse , of which he was accumulating a store , was of a kind that men would care for . He ...
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... writes : " Judging it best to have two strings to the bow , and fearing Mr. Dodsley's will snap , I have finished . another little work from that awkward - titled piece , ' The Foes of Mankind ' : have run it on to three hundred and ...
... writes : " Judging it best to have two strings to the bow , and fearing Mr. Dodsley's will snap , I have finished . another little work from that awkward - titled piece , ' The Foes of Mankind ' : have run it on to three hundred and ...
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... writes yet more urgently to Lord Shelburne ( at that time out of office ) complaining bitterly of North's hardness of heart , and appealing on this occasion to his hoped - for patron both in prose and verse " Ah ! Shelburne , blest with ...
... writes yet more urgently to Lord Shelburne ( at that time out of office ) complaining bitterly of North's hardness of heart , and appealing on this occasion to his hoped - for patron both in prose and verse " Ah ! Shelburne , blest with ...
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