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... the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licentious .
... the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licentious .
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Most of myself I thought ! when it befel , That the soothe spirit of the breezy wood Breath'd in mine ear : “ All this is very well , But much of ONE thing , is for no thing good . " Oh my poor heart's INEXPLICABLE SWELL ! SONNET II .
Most of myself I thought ! when it befel , That the soothe spirit of the breezy wood Breath'd in mine ear : “ All this is very well , But much of ONE thing , is for no thing good . " Oh my poor heart's INEXPLICABLE SWELL ! SONNET II .
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While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
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Was it his spirit , by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch that struck me dead ? No , neither he , nor his compeers by night Giving him aid , my verse astonished . He , nor that affable familiar ghost , Which nightly gulls him ...
Was it his spirit , by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch that struck me dead ? No , neither he , nor his compeers by night Giving him aid , my verse astonished . He , nor that affable familiar ghost , Which nightly gulls him ...
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When ( more exquisite than all ) I see an Epic Poem ( spirits of Maro and Mæonides make ready to welcome your new compeer ! advertised with the special recommendation , that the said EPIC POEM contains ore than an hundred names of ...
When ( more exquisite than all ) I see an Epic Poem ( spirits of Maro and Mæonides make ready to welcome your new compeer ! advertised with the special recommendation , that the said EPIC POEM contains ore than an hundred names of ...
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