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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 ludicrous instance in the poem of ...
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 ludicrous instance in the poem of ...
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... examples of affected simplicity from my volume , have been able to adduce but one instance , and that out of a copy of verses half ludicrous , half splenetic , which I intended , and had myself characterized , as sermoni propriora .
... examples of affected simplicity from my volume , have been able to adduce but one instance , and that out of a copy of verses half ludicrous , half splenetic , which I intended , and had myself characterized , as sermoni propriora .
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Yet even in instances of this kind , a close examination will often detect , that the irritability , which has been attributed to the author's genius as its cause , did really originate in an ill conformation of body , obtuse pain ...
Yet even in instances of this kind , a close examination will often detect , that the irritability , which has been attributed to the author's genius as its cause , did really originate in an ill conformation of body , obtuse pain ...
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... who are thought to be , than of those who really are men of real genius ; and in part from the. * A phrase of Andrew Marvel's . GENIUS . * This is one instance among many of 42 ring their short-lived success, sensible in spite ...
... who are thought to be , than of those who really are men of real genius ; and in part from the. * A phrase of Andrew Marvel's . GENIUS . * This is one instance among many of 42 ring their short-lived success, sensible in spite ...
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This is one instance among many of deception , by the telling the half of a fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid ...
This is one instance among many of deception , by the telling the half of a fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid ...
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