Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - English literature |
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... spirit of true poetry , however , was literature among the people not broken ; the seed was sown , and in the next at large , than had been made , generation , Cowper completed what Thomson had perhaps , throughout all the begun . The ...
... spirit of true poetry , however , was literature among the people not broken ; the seed was sown , and in the next at large , than had been made , generation , Cowper completed what Thomson had perhaps , throughout all the begun . The ...
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... spirit of Milton seems to speak in this strain of lofty egotism ! " The Pleasures of Imagination ' is a poem seldom read continuously , though its finer passages , by fre- quent quotation , particularly in works of criticism and moral ...
... spirit of Milton seems to speak in this strain of lofty egotism ! " The Pleasures of Imagination ' is a poem seldom read continuously , though its finer passages , by fre- quent quotation , particularly in works of criticism and moral ...
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... spirit , as Churchill had expiated his early follies by an untimely death . Beattie was a sincere lover of truth and virtue , but his ardour led him at times into intolerance , and he was too fond of courting the notice and approbation ...
... spirit , as Churchill had expiated his early follies by an untimely death . Beattie was a sincere lover of truth and virtue , but his ardour led him at times into intolerance , and he was too fond of courting the notice and approbation ...
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... spirit is in homely love and fireside joy ; tender and simple , like the religion of the land , she utters nothing out of keeping with the character of her people , and the aspect of the soil ; and of this spirit , and of this feel- ing ...
... spirit is in homely love and fireside joy ; tender and simple , like the religion of the land , she utters nothing out of keeping with the character of her people , and the aspect of the soil ; and of this spirit , and of this feel- ing ...
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... spirit , and how he was murdered in the garden , how his fear forsook him by degrees , and he was struck dumb with sorrow , as it were , just as I should have been , had it been my own case . But hush ! O la ! what noise is that ? There ...
... spirit , and how he was murdered in the garden , how his fear forsook him by degrees , and he was struck dumb with sorrow , as it were , just as I should have been , had it been my own case . But hush ! O la ! what noise is that ? There ...
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Page 339 - But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away, And I saw a boat appear.