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Perhaps a Perhaps a similar happened to others ; but my earliest poems were marked by an ease and simplicity , which I have studied , perhaps with inferior success , to impress on my later compositions .
Perhaps a Perhaps a similar happened to others ; but my earliest poems were marked by an ease and simplicity , which I have studied , perhaps with inferior success , to impress on my later compositions .
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But the writings of a contemporary , perhaps not many years elder than himself , surrounded by the same circumstances , and disciplined by the same manners , possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a ...
But the writings of a contemporary , perhaps not many years elder than himself , surrounded by the same circumstances , and disciplined by the same manners , possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a ...
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Though I have seen and known enough of mankind to be well aware , that I shall perhaps stand alone in my creed , and that it will be well , if I subject myself to no worse charge than that of singularity ; I am not therefore deterred ...
Though I have seen and known enough of mankind to be well aware , that I shall perhaps stand alone in my creed , and that it will be well , if I subject myself to no worse charge than that of singularity ; I am not therefore deterred ...
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It would perhaps have been destructive , had it been continued ; but from this I was auspiciously withdrawn , partly indeed by an accidental introduction to an amiable family , chiefly however , by the genial influence of a style of ...
It would perhaps have been destructive , had it been continued ; but from this I was auspiciously withdrawn , partly indeed by an accidental introduction to an amiable family , chiefly however , by the genial influence of a style of ...
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1 1 and then pick out , from Virgil , Horace , Ovid , or perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from ...
1 1 and then pick out , from Virgil , Horace , Ovid , or perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from ...
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