Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... whilst a vast majority of the Canterbury Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is discoverable both in these and other parts of his works , in the serious and more elevated ...
... whilst a vast majority of the Canterbury Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is discoverable both in these and other parts of his works , in the serious and more elevated ...
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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 Widow ...
... 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 Widow ...
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... whilst painting the Mornings of Spring . Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers : While ilka thing in nature join Their sorrows to forego ...
... whilst painting the Mornings of Spring . Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers : While ilka thing in nature join Their sorrows to forego ...
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... whilst resident in Edinburgh , during the years 1786-7-8 and 9 , is one of those few poets who , from the strength and originality with which they have painted the emotions of their own breasts , have built for themselves an ever ...
... whilst resident in Edinburgh , during the years 1786-7-8 and 9 , is one of those few poets who , from the strength and originality with which they have painted the emotions of their own breasts , have built for themselves an ever ...
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... whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , " to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times . Innumerable are the four grey stones , the graves of the illustrious dead ...
... whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , " to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times . Innumerable are the four grey stones , the graves of the illustrious dead ...
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