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Of the merits of a poet so well known , and so deservedly popular as is Robert Burns , it would , in the present day , be altogether superfluous to enter into any formal discussion ; and for the purpose which I have in view , that of a ...
Of the merits of a poet so well known , and so deservedly popular as is Robert Burns , it would , in the present day , be altogether superfluous to enter into any formal discussion ; and for the purpose which I have in view , that of a ...
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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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The allusion of the last two lines of this striking address brings to the memory of the bard , with all its bitterest aggravation , the irreparable loss which he has sustained . He cannot avoid contrasting his present forlorn and ...
The allusion of the last two lines of this striking address brings to the memory of the bard , with all its bitterest aggravation , the irreparable loss which he has sustained . He cannot avoid contrasting his present forlorn and ...
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... these fine stanzas conclude has the effect of throw- ing the saint completely off his guard , and he bursts into a strain of invective which does not present us with a very favourable idea of his progress in Chris- tian charity .
... these fine stanzas conclude has the effect of throw- ing the saint completely off his guard , and he bursts into a strain of invective which does not present us with a very favourable idea of his progress in Chris- tian charity .
Page 62
... a passage of ex- quisite beauty and feeling , which in the present day cannot be read without a sigh of deep regret for what has passed since it was written , " as 62 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
... a passage of ex- quisite beauty and feeling , which in the present day cannot be read without a sigh of deep regret for what has passed since it was written , " as 62 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
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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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