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It will , therefore , be barely sufficient in this place to remind the reader , that whilst a vast majority of the Canterbury Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is ...
It will , therefore , be barely sufficient in this place to remind the reader , that whilst a vast majority of the Canterbury Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is ...
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... whilst , at the same time , in all that regards preservation of character , felicity of incident , and richness of humour , where , even in the Canterbury Tales , shall we find two pieces superior to The Twa Married Women and the ...
... whilst , at the same time , in all that regards preservation of character , felicity of incident , and richness of humour , where , even in the Canterbury Tales , shall we find two pieces superior to The Twa Married Women and the ...
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I shall now select from our Scottish bard a few specimens of this delightful union of imagery and pathos whilst painting the Mornings of Spring . Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd ...
I shall now select from our Scottish bard a few specimens of this delightful union of imagery and pathos whilst painting the Mornings of Spring . Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd ...
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1 Burns , of whom I entertain a vivid and cherished recollection , from having met him more than once whilst resident in Edinburgh , during the years 1786-7-8 and 9 , is one of those few poets who , from the strength and originality ...
1 Burns , of whom I entertain a vivid and cherished recollection , from having met him more than once whilst resident in Edinburgh , during the years 1786-7-8 and 9 , is one of those few poets who , from the strength and originality ...
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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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