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Than the last , indeed , I know of no narrative which presents so masterly a display of contrasted talent ; a transition so complete from scenery that would do honour to the pencil of Ho- garth , to that which breathes the most awful ...
Than the last , indeed , I know of no narrative which presents so masterly a display of contrasted talent ; a transition so complete from scenery that would do honour to the pencil of Ho- garth , to that which breathes the most awful ...
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If we now turn to the initiatory stanzas of the Thistle and the Rose , in which the bard fancies himself addressed in a dream by May , who urges him to write something in her honour , and to wel- come the return of Spring , we shall ...
If we now turn to the initiatory stanzas of the Thistle and the Rose , in which the bard fancies himself addressed in a dream by May , who urges him to write something in her honour , and to wel- come the return of Spring , we shall ...
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Sluggard , she said , awake , anon , for shame , And in my honour something thou go write : The lark has done the merry day proclaim , To raise up lovers with comfort and delight ; Yet nought increase thy courage to indite , Whose heart ...
Sluggard , she said , awake , anon , for shame , And in my honour something thou go write : The lark has done the merry day proclaim , To raise up lovers with comfort and delight ; Yet nought increase thy courage to indite , Whose heart ...
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I know not who watched by the body of Burns - much it was my wish to share in the honour ; but my extreme youth would have made such a request seem foolish , and its rejection would have been sure . " The multitude who accompanied Burns ...
I know not who watched by the body of Burns - much it was my wish to share in the honour ; but my extreme youth would have made such a request seem foolish , and its rejection would have been sure . " The multitude who accompanied Burns ...
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I could indeed have wished the military part of the procession away - for he was buried with military honours - because I am one of those who love simplicity in all that regards genius . The scarlet and gold - the banners displayed ...
I could indeed have wished the military part of the procession away - for he was buried with military honours - because I am one of those who love simplicity in all that regards genius . The scarlet and gold - the banners displayed ...
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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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