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Page 28
... eleven , When Phoebus shook hands , and departed for heaven ; " For poets , " he said , " who would cherish their powers , And hop'd to be deathless , must keep to good hours . " ( 28 ) So off he betook him the way that he came 28.
... eleven , When Phoebus shook hands , and departed for heaven ; " For poets , " he said , " who would cherish their powers , And hop'd to be deathless , must keep to good hours . " ( 28 ) So off he betook him the way that he came 28.
Page 44
... power to enslave , delighted to make free ; a con- queror , who could stop short of the love of con- quest , and sheath his sword the moment it had done enough - a sage , in short , who , during the greatest part of a reign in which he ...
... power to enslave , delighted to make free ; a con- queror , who could stop short of the love of con- quest , and sheath his sword the moment it had done enough - a sage , in short , who , during the greatest part of a reign in which he ...
Page 49
... goes from the table . Mr. Crabbe is unquestionably a man of genius ; possessing imagination , observation , originality : he has even powers of the pathetic and the terri- ble , but , with all these fine elements of 8 49.
... goes from the table . Mr. Crabbe is unquestionably a man of genius ; possessing imagination , observation , originality : he has even powers of the pathetic and the terri- ble , but , with all these fine elements of 8 49.
Page 53
... powers , in consequence of those varieties of his own , in which after shaking us with his terrors , or shocking us with his resentments and his diabo- lisms , he will enchant us with his grace , melt us with his tenderness , or refresh ...
... powers , in consequence of those varieties of his own , in which after shaking us with his terrors , or shocking us with his resentments and his diabo- lisms , he will enchant us with his grace , melt us with his tenderness , or refresh ...
Page 65
... power to talk naturally for to say nothing of the continued modern smoothness which is added to the old versification , and of the different periods of time to which the self - same language is applied , no writers , not excepting the ...
... power to talk naturally for to say nothing of the continued modern smoothness which is added to the old versification , and of the different periods of time to which the self - same language is applied , no writers , not excepting the ...
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