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... verse : and only stop to remind us at irregular intervals that honesty is the best policy , that in this world nothing is permanent , and that good children obey their parents . Nor does Hannay in his most sugary moments ever produce a ...
... verse : and only stop to remind us at irregular intervals that honesty is the best policy , that in this world nothing is permanent , and that good children obey their parents . Nor does Hannay in his most sugary moments ever produce a ...
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... verse ' , and to prove ' how much pleasure may be got out of the French poets even by those whose conception of poetry makes them demand of it things far above rhetoric . ' It is perhaps a little doubtful whether the neglect of which Mr ...
... verse ' , and to prove ' how much pleasure may be got out of the French poets even by those whose conception of poetry makes them demand of it things far above rhetoric . ' It is perhaps a little doubtful whether the neglect of which Mr ...
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... verse- making to its own vigorous and unexpected purposes ; the true vehicle for passion is the varied blank verse of the Elizabethans , not the even couplet of Pope . These considerations , true enough in general , only serve to prove ...
... verse- making to its own vigorous and unexpected purposes ; the true vehicle for passion is the varied blank verse of the Elizabethans , not the even couplet of Pope . These considerations , true enough in general , only serve to prove ...
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A New History of Rome Jan 2 1909 page | 13 |
Sir Henry Wotton Nov 23 1907 | 23 |
The Swan of Lichfield Dec 7 1907 | 33 |
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