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... common fate of those writers who , possessing a very moderate power of self - criticism , are apparently unable to discriminate between their good work and their bad . Both have suffered , and still suffer , in public estimation from ...
... common fate of those writers who , possessing a very moderate power of self - criticism , are apparently unable to discriminate between their good work and their bad . Both have suffered , and still suffer , in public estimation from ...
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... common with Dunwich , and other once flourishing ports on the same coast , Aldeburgh had for its most fatal enemy , the sea . The gradual encroachments of that irresistible power had in the course of two centuries buried a large portion ...
... common with Dunwich , and other once flourishing ports on the same coast , Aldeburgh had for its most fatal enemy , the sea . The gradual encroachments of that irresistible power had in the course of two centuries buried a large portion ...
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... 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 claim . But neither these poets nor even Thomson , whose avowed ...
... 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 claim . But neither these poets nor even Thomson , whose avowed ...
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... common weed . He stopped opposite a shallow , muddy piece of water , as desolate and gloomy as his own mind , called the Leech - pond , and ' it was while I gazed on it , ' he said to my brother and me , one happy morning , ' that I ...
... common weed . He stopped opposite a shallow , muddy piece of water , as desolate and gloomy as his own mind , called the Leech - pond , and ' it was while I gazed on it , ' he said to my brother and me , one happy morning , ' that I ...
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... common necessaries of life till my abilities should procure me more ; of these I had the highest opinion , and a poetical vanity contributed to my delusion . I knew little of the world , and had read books only I wrote , and fancied ...
... common necessaries of life till my abilities should procure me more ; of these I had the highest opinion , and a poetical vanity contributed to my delusion . I knew little of the world , and had read books only I wrote , and fancied ...
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