Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... given to the poetry of Burns such a wide and ever - during dominion over the human heart . I shall now select from our Scottish bard a few specimens of this delightful union of imagery and pathos whilst painting the Mornings of Spring ...
... given to the poetry of Burns such a wide and ever - during dominion over the human heart . I shall now select from our Scottish bard a few specimens of this delightful union of imagery and pathos whilst painting the Mornings of Spring ...
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... given in the Caledonian poems , must , after a slight considera- tion , be reckoned as one amongst the strongest cor- roborative proofs of the genuineness of the latter . It has been , in fact , the most startling , and ap- parently the ...
... given in the Caledonian poems , must , after a slight considera- tion , be reckoned as one amongst the strongest cor- roborative proofs of the genuineness of the latter . It has been , in fact , the most startling , and ap- parently the ...
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... given us of the former . The saint and the poet are represented as usual , conversing familiarly together , when the latter ex- claims with his customary courtesy , O son of Calphruin ! —sage divine ! Soft voice of heavenly song , Whose ...
... given us of the former . The saint and the poet are represented as usual , conversing familiarly together , when the latter ex- claims with his customary courtesy , O son of Calphruin ! —sage divine ! Soft voice of heavenly song , Whose ...
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... given by Miss Brooke in a literal version from a poem of the like age with that in the text , entitled " A Dialogue between Oisin and St. Patrick ; " where the former , lamenting the loss of his O Inisfail ! thy Oisin goes To guard thy ...
... given by Miss Brooke in a literal version from a poem of the like age with that in the text , entitled " A Dialogue between Oisin and St. Patrick ; " where the former , lamenting the loss of his O Inisfail ! thy Oisin goes To guard thy ...
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... given us a much more amiable idea of the saint , had they represented him as some- what more lenient , more ready to make allowance for impressions rendered indelible not only by length of time , but by the ties of consanguinity , love ...
... given us a much more amiable idea of the saint , had they represented him as some- what more lenient , more ready to make allowance for impressions rendered indelible not only by length of time , but by the ties of consanguinity , love ...
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