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... poetry or prose , which Walter Scott produced between 1796 , when his first translations from Bürger appeared , to 1831 , when " Count Robert of Paris " was published , none was more remarkable than the story of his own life . Scott ...
... poetry or prose , which Walter Scott produced between 1796 , when his first translations from Bürger appeared , to 1831 , when " Count Robert of Paris " was published , none was more remarkable than the story of his own life . Scott ...
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... poetry , which he regarded so highly ; and his means then being limited , and chiefly devoted to the purchase of old books , he was content to live , in his wanderings through the country , in a homely manner among the peasantry ...
... poetry , which he regarded so highly ; and his means then being limited , and chiefly devoted to the purchase of old books , he was content to live , in his wanderings through the country , in a homely manner among the peasantry ...
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... poetic temperament invested the pictures of memory with the glow of imagination ; yet he rarely lost sight of Nature . Hence his descriptions of scenery have breadth as well as detail , and are accurate as well as vivid . His poetic ...
... poetic temperament invested the pictures of memory with the glow of imagination ; yet he rarely lost sight of Nature . Hence his descriptions of scenery have breadth as well as detail , and are accurate as well as vivid . His poetic ...
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... poetry but his own very effectively . To be sure , poets rarely do justice to their own compositions . As Mrs. Browning has finely , because truly , written in " Lady Geraldine's Courtship , " " Poets ever fail in reading their own ...
... poetry but his own very effectively . To be sure , poets rarely do justice to their own compositions . As Mrs. Browning has finely , because truly , written in " Lady Geraldine's Courtship , " " Poets ever fail in reading their own ...
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... poets ay , and some great ones read their own compositions ; and I confess that I wished some other persons had done it ... poetry , read his own writings admirably . The art of conceal- ing art was exhibited , to a great degree , in his ...
... poets ay , and some great ones read their own compositions ; and I confess that I wished some other persons had done it ... poetry , read his own writings admirably . The art of conceal- ing art was exhibited , to a great degree , in his ...
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