Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... poets who have , towards the close of the last century , endeavoured to recall the attention of the public to topics connected with our elder annals and poesy ; in doing which , I shall gladly seize every opportunity which the subject ...
... poets who have , towards the close of the last century , endeavoured to recall the attention of the public to topics connected with our elder annals and poesy ; in doing which , I shall gladly seize every opportunity which the subject ...
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... poet and the painter , yet chastised by pure taste and correct judgment , and clothed in a style at once nervous , rich , and elegant . I can well remember the delight with which , two years after I had visited at Skipton the remains of ...
... poet and the painter , yet chastised by pure taste and correct judgment , and clothed in a style at once nervous , rich , and elegant . I can well remember the delight with which , two years after I had visited at Skipton the remains of ...
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... poet is here founded on fact , for such , according to the statement of the chroniclers , were the circumstances which preceded the death of lord Clifford ; but , in admitting these lines , the bard had forgotten that , at the close of ...
... poet is here founded on fact , for such , according to the statement of the chroniclers , were the circumstances which preceded the death of lord Clifford ; but , in admitting these lines , the bard had forgotten that , at the close of ...
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... poet , founded the following pathetic scene , which , there is much reason to suppose , little , if at all , exaggerates the fell and cruel rage which in- flamed the breasts of nearly all the leaders in this merciless warfare . " Plains ...
... poet , founded the following pathetic scene , which , there is much reason to suppose , little , if at all , exaggerates the fell and cruel rage which in- flamed the breasts of nearly all the leaders in this merciless warfare . " Plains ...
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... poets moulder in the earth ! No sound is heard but of the wailing blast , Through the lone rooms , where echoed crowded mirth ! Yet on their semblance Melancholy pores , And all the faded splendour soon restores ! BRITISH BIBLIOGRAPHER ...
... poets moulder in the earth ! No sound is heard but of the wailing blast , Through the lone rooms , where echoed crowded mirth ! Yet on their semblance Melancholy pores , And all the faded splendour soon restores ! BRITISH BIBLIOGRAPHER ...
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Mornings in Spring; Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake No preview available - 2012 |
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