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... instances, I grieve to say, the acrimonious passions, with which the controversy has been conducted by the assailants. Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ...
... instances, I grieve to say, the acrimonious passions, with which the controversy has been conducted by the assailants. Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ...
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... instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the contro- versy has been conducted by the assailants . Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as ...
... instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the contro- versy has been conducted by the assailants . Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as ...
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... instances has this been more striking , than in disputes concerning the present subject . If a man chooses to call every composition a poem , which is rhyme , or measure , or both , I must leave his opinion uncontroverted . The dis ...
... instances has this been more striking , than in disputes concerning the present subject . If a man chooses to call every composition a poem , which is rhyme , or measure , or both , I must leave his opinion uncontroverted . The dis ...
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... instance , there is nothing objectionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : " Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from the sea - blast , seen at ...
... instance , there is nothing objectionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : " Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from the sea - blast , seen at ...
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... ? Inopem me copia fecit . How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 . " From you have I been absent in the spring Bb 2 19 jects which he presents. Unaided by any pre- ...
... ? Inopem me copia fecit . How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 . " From you have I been absent in the spring Bb 2 19 jects which he presents. Unaided by any pre- ...
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