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the imagery , and even the incidents , in the wild but powerfully written tales of Palamon and Arcite , and Cambuscan , and with what deep and com- miserating sympathy do we hang over the pathetic narratives of Troilus and Creseda and ...
the imagery , and even the incidents , in the wild but powerfully written tales of Palamon and Arcite , and Cambuscan , and with what deep and com- miserating sympathy do we hang over the pathetic narratives of Troilus and Creseda and ...
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The wanton coot the water skims , Amang the reeds the ducklings cry , The stately swan majestic swims , And every thing is blest but I. The sheep - herd steeks his faulding slap , And owre the moorlands whistles shrill , Wi ' wild ...
The wanton coot the water skims , Amang the reeds the ducklings cry , The stately swan majestic swims , And every thing is blest but I. The sheep - herd steeks his faulding slap , And owre the moorlands whistles shrill , Wi ' wild ...
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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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But that seven or eight centuries after Fingal had ceased to reign and Ossian to sing , legendary and heroic verses should be produced in Ireland , which , however wild and inconsistent in other respects , paint the character of Ossian ...
But that seven or eight centuries after Fingal had ceased to reign and Ossian to sing , legendary and heroic verses should be produced in Ireland , which , however wild and inconsistent in other respects , paint the character of Ossian ...
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We can scarcely , however , re- gret this want of equanimity on the part of St. Patrick , since it introduces the following wild but beautifully characteristic expostulation from the lips of his companion , who , shocked , as he well ...
We can scarcely , however , re- gret this want of equanimity on the part of St. Patrick , since it introduces the following wild but beautifully characteristic expostulation from the lips of his companion , who , shocked , as he well ...
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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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