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A brilliant sun enlivens the face of nature with an unusual lustre : the sudden appearance of cloudless skies , and the unexpected warmth of a tepid atmo- sphere , after the gloom and the inclemencies of a VOL . II .
A brilliant sun enlivens the face of nature with an unusual lustre : the sudden appearance of cloudless skies , and the unexpected warmth of a tepid atmo- sphere , after the gloom and the inclemencies of a VOL . II .
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Thus , as faithful delineations of the beauties of nature , what can be more fresh and distinct than many of the landscapes which he has given us in the Flower and Leaf , the Romaunt of the Rose , and the Complaint of the Black Knight ?
Thus , as faithful delineations of the beauties of nature , what can be more fresh and distinct than many of the landscapes which he has given us in the Flower and Leaf , the Romaunt of the Rose , and the Complaint of the Black Knight ?
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The latter narrative , more especially , is conducted , both as to its fable and its characters , with a thorough know- ledge of human nature , with the most minute fidelity in point of description , and with a pungency and originality ...
The latter narrative , more especially , is conducted , both as to its fable and its characters , with a thorough know- ledge of human nature , with the most minute fidelity in point of description , and with a pungency and originality ...
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... at home than when painting this beautiful period of the day and year , and his landscapes seem glowing as it were with all the dewy freshness of nature . He tells us , in short , that nothing could withdraw MORNINGS IN SPRING . 11.
... at home than when painting this beautiful period of the day and year , and his landscapes seem glowing as it were with all the dewy freshness of nature . He tells us , in short , that nothing could withdraw MORNINGS IN SPRING . 11.
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The soil was plain and smooth , and wonder soft , All over - spread with tapets that nature Had made herself ; covered eke aloft With boughis green , the flowers for to cure , That in their beauty they may long endure , From all assault ...
The soil was plain and smooth , and wonder soft , All over - spread with tapets that nature Had made herself ; covered eke aloft With boughis green , the flowers for to cure , That in their beauty they may long endure , From all assault ...
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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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