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... that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely , SURREY GAOL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was.
... that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely , SURREY GAOL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was.
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... thing for an author to balk the numour of one of his passages . For the modern dra- matists , as a body , it is almost needless in the present writer to express his contempt ; and some of them , even as men , deserve to be handled with ...
... thing for an author to balk the numour of one of his passages . For the modern dra- matists , as a body , it is almost needless in the present writer to express his contempt ; and some of them , even as men , deserve to be handled with ...
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... - what a very great thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes - a king ! ( 10 ) Apollo smil'd shrewdly , and bade him sit down With " Well , Mr. Scott , you have manag'd the town ; Now pray , copy less - have a little temerity- 20.
... - what a very great thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes - a king ! ( 10 ) Apollo smil'd shrewdly , and bade him sit down With " Well , Mr. Scott , you have manag'd the town ; Now pray , copy less - have a little temerity- 20.
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... thing I've always forgotten to mention- Your versification - pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its ...
... thing I've always forgotten to mention- Your versification - pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its ...
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... thing of scorn he describ'd it to be , But he said it was patient to heaven's decree : - Then he gaz'd upon nothing , and looking forlorn , Dropt a nutural tear for that wild thing of scorn ! ( 19 ) Apollo half laughed betwixt anger and ...
... thing of scorn he describ'd it to be , But he said it was patient to heaven's decree : - Then he gaz'd upon nothing , and looking forlorn , Dropt a nutural tear for that wild thing of scorn ! ( 19 ) Apollo half laughed betwixt anger and ...
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