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... imitation . He would often permit our theme exercises , under some pretext of want of time , to accumulate , till each lad had four or five to be looked over . Then placing the whole num- ber abreast on his desk , he would ask the ...
... imitation . He would often permit our theme exercises , under some pretext of want of time , to accumulate , till each lad had four or five to be looked over . Then placing the whole num- ber abreast on his desk , he would ask the ...
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... imitation in the bard ; " Fair laughs the morn , and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes , YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the helm , Regardless of the sweeping ...
... imitation in the bard ; " Fair laughs the morn , and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes , YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the helm , Regardless of the sweeping ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. imitation it depended wholly in the composi tor's putting , or not putting a small Capital , both in this , and in many other passages of the same poet , whether the words should be person- ifications , or mere ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. imitation it depended wholly in the composi tor's putting , or not putting a small Capital , both in this , and in many other passages of the same poet , whether the words should be person- ifications , or mere ...
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... imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * I remember a ...
... imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * I remember a ...
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... imitate the power , and supply the benevolence of nature to sheltered navies ; or in aqueducts that arching the wide vale from mountain to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men des- tined ...
... imitate the power , and supply the benevolence of nature to sheltered navies ; or in aqueducts that arching the wide vale from mountain to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men des- tined ...
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