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... the main he was delivered from it by what I have called a first - hand association with man and nature . He was ever describing what he had seen and studied with his own eyes , and the vocabulary of 2 [ CHAP . CRABBE.
... the main he was delivered from it by what I have called a first - hand association with man and nature . He was ever describing what he had seen and studied with his own eyes , and the vocabulary of 2 [ CHAP . CRABBE.
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... nature imperious , and had always ( it would seem ) been liable to intemperance of another kind . Moreover , a contested election for the Borough in 1774 had brought with it its familiar temptations to pro- tracted debauch — and it is ...
... nature imperious , and had always ( it would seem ) been liable to intemperance of another kind . Moreover , a contested election for the Borough in 1774 had brought with it its familiar temptations to pro- tracted debauch — and it is ...
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... natural history , and especially of botany . This latter study had been taken up during his stay at Woodbridge , the ... nature , are Crabbe's rivals in this respect . Byron in the most hackneyed of all eulogies upon Crabbe defined him ...
... natural history , and especially of botany . This latter study had been taken up during his stay at Woodbridge , the ... nature , are Crabbe's rivals in this respect . Byron in the most hackneyed of all eulogies upon Crabbe defined him ...
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... Nature in her less lovely phases . Crabbe was not stern in his attitude either to his fellow - men , or to the varying aspects of Nature , although for the first years of his life he was in habitual contact with the less alluring side ...
... Nature in her less lovely phases . Crabbe was not stern in his attitude either to his fellow - men , or to the varying aspects of Nature , although for the first years of his life he was in habitual contact with the less alluring side ...
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... nature allowed . His distress . was now extreme ; he was incurring debts with little hope of paying them , and creditors were pressing . Forty years later he told Walter Scott and Lockhart how " during many months when he was toiling in ...
... nature allowed . His distress . was now extreme ; he was incurring debts with little hope of paying them , and creditors were pressing . Forty years later he told Walter Scott and Lockhart how " during many months when he was toiling in ...
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