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Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter- rible , and the ...
Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter- rible , and the ...
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Where- ever two or three people stood together , their talk was of Burns and of him alone ; they spoke of his history , of his person , of his works , of his family , of his fame , and of his untimely and approaching fate , with a ...
Where- ever two or three people stood together , their talk was of Burns and of him alone ; they spoke of his history , of his person , of his works , of his family , of his fame , and of his untimely and approaching fate , with a ...
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We can scarcely , indeed , form a picture of more utter destitution than what is presented to us in the person of the Celtic Homer , whether it be drawn from Scottish or Irish sources . Nor can we avoid thinking , that when the poets of ...
We can scarcely , indeed , form a picture of more utter destitution than what is presented to us in the person of the Celtic Homer , whether it be drawn from Scottish or Irish sources . Nor can we avoid thinking , that when the poets of ...
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has observed , " she might complain with some rea- son , that he had been sufficiently profuse in the decoration of his own person , and very economical with respect to hers ; " for there are but two articles of dress put down for her ...
has observed , " she might complain with some rea- son , that he had been sufficiently profuse in the decoration of his own person , and very economical with respect to hers ; " for there are but two articles of dress put down for her ...
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... for when but sixteen he was made a knight of the bath , and at twenty , as we have already seen , he married lady Eleanor Bran- don , the king's niece , a marriage which , I have now to add , was graced by Henry himself in person .
... for when but sixteen he was made a knight of the bath , and at twenty , as we have already seen , he married lady Eleanor Bran- don , the king's niece , a marriage which , I have now to add , was graced by Henry himself in person .
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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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