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" These paths are stopt — the rude philistines thrall Is laid upon them and destroyed them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks up to notice... "
Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 - Page 5
by J. M. Neeson - 1993 - 382 pages
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John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance

Johanne Clare - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 248 pages
...commons and ancient footpaths, areas which Clare felt no single person or group had a right to own: the rude philistines thrall Is laid upon them and destroyed them all Each little tyrant with his litte sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine (JCOA , 169) Finally, closely related...
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John Clare in Context

Geoffrey Summerfield, Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 348 pages
...something dramatically jolting, stopping the verse dead in mid-line with the appropriate word 'stopt': These paths are stopt - the rude philistines thrall...Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks up to notice 'no road here' And on the tree...
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The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture ...

Gerald M. MacLean, Donna Landry, Joseph P. Ward - History - 1999 - 280 pages
...familiar knowledge. This rationalization accomplishes the disenchantment of that traditional world: "Each little tyrant with his little sign / Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine."24 In "The Gipsey's Camp," written 1819-20, Clare rewrites a passage from Samuel Rogers's 1792...
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Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

Catherine E. Rigby - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 348 pages
...little bounds Of field and meadow large as garden grounds In little parcels little minds to please Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine (47-49,67-68) The acceptance of the faith of Saint Boniface might have long since brought an end to...
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