The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... friend on an epithala- mium something similar to this one , which appear to de- scribe very accurately the nature of the invention . Hark ! the rapt bard of love and marriage sings , While o'er his harp vex'd Cupid flaps his wings , And ...
... friend on an epithala- mium something similar to this one , which appear to de- scribe very accurately the nature of the invention . Hark ! the rapt bard of love and marriage sings , While o'er his harp vex'd Cupid flaps his wings , And ...
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... friend the meaning of the phoenomenon . A savage would instantly have stabbed him . Indeed , the North Americans are represented as a nation of philosophers . They all speak according to the rules of Quinctilian for the formation of ...
... friend the meaning of the phoenomenon . A savage would instantly have stabbed him . Indeed , the North Americans are represented as a nation of philosophers . They all speak according to the rules of Quinctilian for the formation of ...
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... friend Ullin , like the fidus Achates ' of Æneas , is a perfect cypher ; and if we may be allowed to judge from his specimens of poetry , one of the dullest bards that ever woke the Gaelic harp . As for the old queen , it is not easy to ...
... friend Ullin , like the fidus Achates ' of Æneas , is a perfect cypher ; and if we may be allowed to judge from his specimens of poetry , one of the dullest bards that ever woke the Gaelic harp . As for the old queen , it is not easy to ...
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... friendship , thou Of turtle eye and placid brow ; For feelings exquisitely fine , And truth and tenderness are thine . ' Instead of calling the morning Aurora , the evening Hes- per , and the moon Cynthia , it would have been more sensi ...
... friendship , thou Of turtle eye and placid brow ; For feelings exquisitely fine , And truth and tenderness are thine . ' Instead of calling the morning Aurora , the evening Hes- per , and the moon Cynthia , it would have been more sensi ...
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... friends , we advise him to desist from the journey ; and though it may be known at present to some persons , that he has published a long account of his hitherto short excursion , he may con- sole himself with the rational belief that ...
... friends , we advise him to desist from the journey ; and though it may be known at present to some persons , that he has published a long account of his hitherto short excursion , he may con- sole himself with the rational belief that ...
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