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I stop here , " says Gray , " not because there are not great beauties in the remainder of this epistle , but because Lydgate , in the three last stanzas of this extract , has touched the very heart - strings of compassion with so ...
I stop here , " says Gray , " not because there are not great beauties in the remainder of this epistle , but because Lydgate , in the three last stanzas of this extract , has touched the very heart - strings of compassion with so ...
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The first time I ever saw Burns , " says the ami- able writer , " was in Nithsdale . 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 ...
The first time I ever saw Burns , " says the ami- able writer , " was in Nithsdale . 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 ...
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It is the custom of Scotland to ' wake ' the body — not with wild howlings and wilder songs , and much waste of strong drink , like our mercurial neighbours , but in silence or in prayer : superstition says it is unsonsie to leave a ...
It is the custom of Scotland to ' wake ' the body — not with wild howlings and wilder songs , and much waste of strong drink , like our mercurial neighbours , but in silence or in prayer : superstition says it is unsonsie to leave a ...
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... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been pro- duced , so remarkably distinguishes both the per- + Milton , & c .
... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been pro- duced , so remarkably distinguishes both the per- + Milton , & c .
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It is almost impossible , " says the author of this attempt , whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , " to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times .
It is almost impossible , " says the author of this attempt , whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , " to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times .
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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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