Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writersRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - Authors, English |
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... Happy Valley , 626 MR CAMPBELL , J. L. PEACOCK , 627 JAMES PRIOR , Freebooter Life in the Forest , from ' Maid Marian , ' 627 SIR JOHN MALCOLM , HORACE SMITH , 627 T. H. LISTER , • GEORGE P. R. JAMES , 628 PATRICK FRASER TYTLER , REV ...
... Happy Valley , 626 MR CAMPBELL , J. L. PEACOCK , 627 JAMES PRIOR , Freebooter Life in the Forest , from ' Maid Marian , ' 627 SIR JOHN MALCOLM , HORACE SMITH , 627 T. H. LISTER , • GEORGE P. R. JAMES , 628 PATRICK FRASER TYTLER , REV ...
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... happy period of his life when he lived with Lord Tyrconnel . Amidst much puerile and tawdry description , The Wanderer ' contains some impressive passages . The versification is easy and correct . The Bastard is , however , a superior ...
... happy period of his life when he lived with Lord Tyrconnel . Amidst much puerile and tawdry description , The Wanderer ' contains some impressive passages . The versification is easy and correct . The Bastard is , however , a superior ...
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... happy ! The glad soul Has not a wish uncrowned . E'en the lag flesh Rests , too , in hope of meeting once again Its better half , never to sunder more . Nor shall it hope in vain : the time draws on When not a single spot of burial ...
... happy ! The glad soul Has not a wish uncrowned . E'en the lag flesh Rests , too , in hope of meeting once again Its better half , never to sunder more . Nor shall it hope in vain : the time draws on When not a single spot of burial ...
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... ( happy riddance ) from ourselves . Time , in advance , behind him hides his wings , And seems to creep , decrepit with his age . Behold him when passed by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind ...
... ( happy riddance ) from ourselves . Time , in advance , behind him hides his wings , And seems to creep , decrepit with his age . Behold him when passed by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind ...
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... happy life , From whom my liberal fortune took its rise ; Now to the dust gone down ; his houses , lands , And once fair - spreading family , dissolved . Tis said that in some lone obscure retreat , Urged by remembrance sad , and decent ...
... happy life , From whom my liberal fortune took its rise ; Now to the dust gone down ; his houses , lands , And once fair - spreading family , dissolved . Tis said that in some lone obscure retreat , Urged by remembrance sad , and decent ...
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