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... Perhaps a similar process has 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 . At school I enjoyed the ...
... Perhaps a similar process has 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 . At school I enjoyed the ...
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... 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 man . His very admiration is the ...
... 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 man . His very admiration is the ...
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... 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 from avowing , that I regard , and ever have regarded the obligations of ...
... 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 from avowing , that I regard , and ever have regarded the obligations of ...
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... perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same ⚫ The Christ Hospital phrase , not for holidays altogether , but for those on which the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school . mental disease ; if I had continued to ...
... perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same ⚫ The Christ Hospital phrase , not for holidays altogether , but for those on which the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school . mental disease ; if I had continued to ...
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... perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and ...
... perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and ...
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