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Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the terrible , and the sublime ...
Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the terrible , and the sublime ...
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Whereever two or three people stood together , their talk was of Burns and of him alone ; they spoke of his history , of his person , of his works , of his family , of his fame , and of his untimely and approaching fate , with a warmth ...
Whereever two or three people stood together , their talk was of Burns and of him alone ; they spoke of his history , of his person , of his works , of his family , of his fame , and of his untimely and approaching fate , with a warmth ...
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We can scarcely , indeed , form a picture of more utter destitution than what is presented to us in the person of the Celtic Homer , whether it be drawn from Scottish or Irish sources . Nor can we avoid thinking , that when the poets of ...
We can scarcely , indeed , form a picture of more utter destitution than what is presented to us in the person of the Celtic Homer , whether it be drawn from Scottish or Irish sources . Nor can we avoid thinking , that when the poets of ...
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6 has observed , “ she might complain with some reason , that he had been sufficiently profuse in the decoration of his own person , and very economical with respect to hers ; " for there are but two articles of dress put down for her ...
6 has observed , “ she might complain with some reason , that he had been sufficiently profuse in the decoration of his own person , and very economical with respect to hers ; " for there are but two articles of dress put down for her ...
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... for when but sixteen he was made a knight of the bath , and at twenty , as we have already seen , he married lady Eleanor Brandon , the king's niece , a marriage which , I have now to add , was graced by Henry himself in person .
... for when but sixteen he was made a knight of the bath , and at twenty , as we have already seen , he married lady Eleanor Brandon , the king's niece , a marriage which , I have now to add , was graced by Henry himself in person .
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Page 319 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
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Page 319 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar...
Page 78 - The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect.
Page 30 - It is the practice of the young men of Dumfries to meet in the streets during the hours of remission from labour, and by these means I had an opportunity of witnessing the general solicitude of all ranks and of all ages. His differences with them on...
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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 | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
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