PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page vii
... published works . In the life of an author we wish to be told , in the first place , the order in which he wrote his several works , that we may be enabled to study in them the growth of his mind and the progress of his thoughts . We ...
... published works . In the life of an author we wish to be told , in the first place , the order in which he wrote his several works , that we may be enabled to study in them the growth of his mind and the progress of his thoughts . We ...
Page viii
... published works ; and they may perhaps be made use of in due time by some who can perform the task better than I can hope to do . For though I am now one of his nearest relations , and for many years enjoyed his full and intimate ...
... published works ; and they may perhaps be made use of in due time by some who can perform the task better than I can hope to do . For though I am now one of his nearest relations , and for many years enjoyed his full and intimate ...
Page xx
... published without his name , from a natural doubt whether it would be favourably received . The longer Poem , the Ode , would be put in comparison with those of Collins and Gray . But his fears were groundless . His poems were at once ...
... published without his name , from a natural doubt whether it would be favourably received . The longer Poem , the Ode , would be put in comparison with those of Collins and Gray . But his fears were groundless . His poems were at once ...
Page xxiii
... published the best of his poems ; but so little were they then thought of , that our traveller , though asking advice from his Edinburgh friends as to his future route , was never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday ...
... published the best of his poems ; but so little were they then thought of , that our traveller , though asking advice from his Edinburgh friends as to his future route , was never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday ...
Page xxv
... published his ' Pleasures of Memory . ' He had been busy upon this poem for six years ; but he thought it safest not to put his name to it , and he described it as by the author of the ' Ode to Superstition . ' was at once most ...
... published his ' Pleasures of Memory . ' He had been busy upon this poem for six years ; but he thought it safest not to put his name to it , and he described it as by the author of the ' Ode to Superstition . ' was at once most ...
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