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Little call as he may have to instruct others , he wishes nevertheless to open out his heart to such as he either knows or hopes to be of like mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world : he wishes to knit anew his ...
Little call as he may have to instruct others , he wishes nevertheless to open out his heart to such as he either knows or hopes to be of like mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world : he wishes to knit anew his ...
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He is now gone to his final reward , full of years , and full of honors , even of those honors , which were dearest to his heart , as gratefully bestowed by that school , and still binding him to the interests of that school , in which ...
He is now gone to his final reward , full of years , and full of honors , even of those honors , which were dearest to his heart , as gratefully bestowed by that school , and still binding him to the interests of that school , in which ...
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But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility in abstruse researches , which exercised the strength and subtlety of the understanding without awakening the feelings of the heart ; still there ...
But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility in abstruse researches , which exercised the strength and subtlety of the understanding without awakening the feelings of the heart ; still there ...
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The one sacrificed the heart to the head ; the other both heart and head to point and drapery . The reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand ...
The one sacrificed the heart to the head ; the other both heart and head to point and drapery . The reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand ...
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a then living poets Bowles and Cowper * were , to the best of my knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned ...
a then living poets Bowles and Cowper * were , to the best of my knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned ...
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