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... tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised above their native sphere , they would become its instructors and the faithful stewards of its best riches , not its tools or slaves . I ...
... tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised above their native sphere , they would become its instructors and the faithful stewards of its best riches , not its tools or slaves . I ...
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... tion . When the first Poet worked alone , he paused between the cantos to proclaim , " It is very good . " Dividing himself among men , he made some to create , and others to proclaim the merits of what is created . POET . Well ! if you ...
... tion . When the first Poet worked alone , he paused between the cantos to proclaim , " It is very good . " Dividing himself among men , he made some to create , and others to proclaim the merits of what is created . POET . Well ! if you ...
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... tion is so little dissipated , and the sphere of exercising his childish energies so limited , very undesirable . For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life . Nature intended the years of childhood to be ...
... tion is so little dissipated , and the sphere of exercising his childish energies so limited , very undesirable . For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life . Nature intended the years of childhood to be ...
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... tion of human lots ? To view the thing superficially , Crabbe , ill - educated , seemingly fit for no sphere , certainly unable to find any for which he thought himself fit , labouring on poetry , which the most thinking public ( of ...
... tion of human lots ? To view the thing superficially , Crabbe , ill - educated , seemingly fit for no sphere , certainly unable to find any for which he thought himself fit , labouring on poetry , which the most thinking public ( of ...
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... tion ; but Coleridge was well tasked — and not without much hard work could Southey become as " erudite as natural . " flower of Byron's genius expanded with little care of the garden- er ; but the greatest observer , the deepest ...
... tion ; but Coleridge was well tasked — and not without much hard work could Southey become as " erudite as natural . " flower of Byron's genius expanded with little care of the garden- er ; but the greatest observer , the deepest ...
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