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One of these , a perfect transcript from the living scene , I have much pleasure in selecting as a specimen : I rose anon , and thought I woulde goen Into the wood , to hear the birdis sing , When that the misty vapour was agone ...
One of these , a perfect transcript from the living scene , I have much pleasure in selecting as a specimen : I rose anon , and thought I woulde goen Into the wood , to hear the birdis sing , When that the misty vapour was agone ...
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His differences with them in some important parts of human speculation and religious hope were forgotten and forgiven ; they thought only of his genius - of the delight his com- positions had diffused - and they talked of him with the ...
His differences with them in some important parts of human speculation and religious hope were forgotten and forgiven ; they thought only of his genius - of the delight his com- positions had diffused - and they talked of him with the ...
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... to repress cherished pride of the hero and the minstrel , and who exhibits , whilst making the attempt , sentiments of peculiar sublimity and beauty : Cease thy vain thoughts , and fruitless boasts ; Can death thy chiefs restore ?
... to repress cherished pride of the hero and the minstrel , and who exhibits , whilst making the attempt , sentiments of peculiar sublimity and beauty : Cease thy vain thoughts , and fruitless boasts ; Can death thy chiefs restore ?
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Then follows an account of the sums expended for new liveries , which , on such an occasion , it was thought necessary should be of the most sumptuous kind ; and they are accordingly described as con- sisting of coats laced with gold ...
Then follows an account of the sums expended for new liveries , which , on such an occasion , it was thought necessary should be of the most sumptuous kind ; and they are accordingly described as con- sisting of coats laced with gold ...
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... thought worthy of being carried from London into the north . He did not , however , absolutely forget his countess , whom he had left at Skipton , though , as Whitaker has observed , " she might complain with some rea- MORNINGS IN ...
... thought worthy of being carried from London into the north . He did not , however , absolutely forget his countess , whom he had left at Skipton , though , as Whitaker has observed , " she might complain with some rea- MORNINGS IN ...
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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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