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Canace , condemned to death by Eolus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her un- happy passion : " Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
Canace , condemned to death by Eolus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her un- happy passion : " Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
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I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at my father's . knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O ' Shan- ter .
I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at my father's . knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O ' Shan- ter .
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We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts ...
We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts ...
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The delineation , indeed , either of Ossian or his royal father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the purpose which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is ...
The delineation , indeed , either of Ossian or his royal father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the purpose which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is ...
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Did e'er my tale thy curious ear And fond attention draw , The story of that chase to hear , Which my famed father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous ...
Did e'er my tale thy curious ear And fond attention draw , The story of that chase to hear , Which my famed father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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