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1 CHAPTER I. - The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the ...
1 CHAPTER I. - The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the ...
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From that period to the date of the present work I have published nothing , with my name , which could by any possibility have come before the board of anonymous criticism . Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a ...
From that period to the date of the present work I have published nothing , with my name , which could by any possibility have come before the board of anonymous criticism . Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a ...
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7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
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ܪ finances did not permit me to purchase copies , I made , within less than a year and an half , more than forty transcriptions , as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard .
ܪ finances did not permit me to purchase copies , I made , within less than a year and an half , more than forty transcriptions , as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard .
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The second advantage , which I owe to my early perusal , and admiration of these poems ( to which let me add , though known to me at a somewhat later period , the Lewsdon Hill of Mr. Crow ) bears more immediately on my present subject .
The second advantage , which I owe to my early perusal , and admiration of these poems ( to which let me add , though known to me at a somewhat later period , the Lewsdon Hill of Mr. Crow ) bears more immediately on my present subject .
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