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... Southey 203-211 6 Mr. Southey's letter in The Literary Gazette . ' Lord Byron's anxiety and anger . ' Vision of Judgment . ' Southey's critique on ' Foliage . ' Shelley's A0ɛos . ' The Deformed Transformed : ' Shelley's opinion thereon ...
... Southey 203-211 6 Mr. Southey's letter in The Literary Gazette . ' Lord Byron's anxiety and anger . ' Vision of Judgment . ' Southey's critique on ' Foliage . ' Shelley's A0ɛos . ' The Deformed Transformed : ' Shelley's opinion thereon ...
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... Southey's Joan of Arc ; ' Curse of Kehama , ' & c . Don Juan , ' and the Iliad . Dr. Johnson's censorship defied . Intended plan of Don Juan : ' adventures and death of the hero 232-240 6 6 6 Murray's plea the Cookery - book his sheet ...
... Southey's Joan of Arc ; ' Curse of Kehama , ' & c . Don Juan , ' and the Iliad . Dr. Johnson's censorship defied . Intended plan of Don Juan : ' adventures and death of the hero 232-240 6 6 6 Murray's plea the Cookery - book his sheet ...
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... Southey's panegyric , preached the " doctrines of election and faith , and , like all " the sectarians , does not want texts to prove " both . " The best Christians can never be satis- " fied of their own salvation . Dr. Johnson " died ...
... Southey's panegyric , preached the " doctrines of election and faith , and , like all " the sectarians , does not want texts to prove " both . " The best Christians can never be satis- " fied of their own salvation . Dr. Johnson " died ...
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... his have taught him to " be more charitable . I said in a Note to " The Two Foscari , ' in answer to his vain " boasting , that I had done more real good " in one year than Mr. Southey in the whole 210 CONVERSATIONS OF.
... his have taught him to " be more charitable . I said in a Note to " The Two Foscari , ' in answer to his vain " boasting , that I had done more real good " in one year than Mr. Southey in the whole 210 CONVERSATIONS OF.
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... Southey's reply to the Note in question . I happened to see The Literary Gazette ' at Mr. Edgeworth's , and mentioned the ge- neral purport of the letter to Lord Byron during our evening ride . His anxiety to get a sight of it was so ...
... Southey's reply to the Note in question . I happened to see The Literary Gazette ' at Mr. Edgeworth's , and mentioned the ge- neral purport of the letter to Lord Byron during our evening ride . His anxiety to get a sight of it was so ...
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Page 146 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife...
Page 157 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 118 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played.
Page 251 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 156 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 158 - We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 116 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 79 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...