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... reader would not have been troubled with this exculpation . What my additional purposes were , will be seen in the following pages . It will be found , that the least of what I have written concerns myself personally . I have used the ...
... reader would not have been troubled with this exculpation . What my additional purposes were , will be seen in the following pages . It will be found , that the least of what I have written concerns myself personally . I have used the ...
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... reader will , I trust , excuse this tribute of recollection to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ...
... reader will , I trust , excuse this tribute of recollection to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ...
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... reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in pursuing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own ...
... reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in pursuing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own ...
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... reader will excuse me for noticing , that I myself was the first to expose risu honesto the three sins of poetry , one or the other of which is the most likely to beset a young writer . So long ago as the publication of the second ...
... reader will excuse me for noticing , that I myself was the first to expose risu honesto the three sins of poetry , one or the other of which is the most likely to beset a young writer . So long ago as the publication of the second ...
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... reader will find them in the note1 below , and 1 SONNET I. PENSIVE at eve , on the hard world I mused , And my poor heart was sad ; so at the Moon I gazed , and sighed , and sighed ; for ah how soon Eve saddens into night ! mine eyes ...
... reader will find them in the note1 below , and 1 SONNET I. PENSIVE at eve , on the hard world I mused , And my poor heart was sad ; so at the Moon I gazed , and sighed , and sighed ; for ah how soon Eve saddens into night ! mine eyes ...
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