Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her un- happy passion : " Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother full piteouslie she said , ' Cause of my ...
... father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her un- happy passion : " Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother full piteouslie she said , ' Cause of my ...
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... father's knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O'Shan- ter . He was tall , and ' of a manly make ; his brow broad and high ; and his voice varied with the cha- racter of his inimitable tale ; yet through all its variations it was ...
... father's knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O'Shan- ter . He was tall , and ' of a manly make ; his brow broad and high ; and his voice varied with the cha- racter of his inimitable tale ; yet through all its variations it was ...
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... father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts , and compels our sympathy to accompany all his griefs ; while in a strain of natural and empassioned elo- quence , he descants on the ...
... father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts , and compels our sympathy to accompany all his griefs ; while in a strain of natural and empassioned elo- quence , he descants on the ...
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... father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the purpose which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is , from the splendor of his genius , from his blindness , and his ...
... father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the purpose which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is , from the splendor of his genius , from his blindness , and his ...
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... father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous progress view'd ? A query to which the holy anchorite replies , O royal bard ! to valour dear , Whom fame ...
... father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous progress view'd ? A query to which the holy anchorite replies , O royal bard ! to valour dear , Whom fame ...
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