Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education: Including a Lecture on the Poetry of PopeLongman, 1852 - 128 pages |
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... admiring audiences . The ma- nuscript being presented to the Committee of the " Yorkshire Union , " they were published in a cheap form , and many thou- sand copies were circulated among the Institutes of that and the neighbouring ...
... admiring audiences . The ma- nuscript being presented to the Committee of the " Yorkshire Union , " they were published in a cheap form , and many thou- sand copies were circulated among the Institutes of that and the neighbouring ...
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... admirable master of his art ( I refer to Gray ) , has shown what an exalted estimate he had formed of Pope , in the ... admiration . " I will only further cite from the poets whom many of us remem- ber in our own day , one still more ...
... admirable master of his art ( I refer to Gray ) , has shown what an exalted estimate he had formed of Pope , in the ... admiration . " I will only further cite from the poets whom many of us remem- ber in our own day , one still more ...
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... admired in this country - and I crown my list with Mr. Prescott , the historian of Ferdinand and Isabella , of Mexico , and of Peru , with respect to whom , during the visit he paid to England in the past summer , I had the satisfaction ...
... admired in this country - and I crown my list with Mr. Prescott , the historian of Ferdinand and Isabella , of Mexico , and of Peru , with respect to whom , during the visit he paid to England in the past summer , I had the satisfaction ...
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... admired in Gibbon , where , wishing to give a fair view of the poetical character of Claudian , he sums up separately his merits and defects , and leaves his reader to strike the just balance . In some such mode it might be stated ...
... admired in Gibbon , where , wishing to give a fair view of the poetical character of Claudian , he sums up separately his merits and defects , and leaves his reader to strike the just balance . In some such mode it might be stated ...
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... admiration I entertain of the zeal and activity and self - denying love with which you pur- sue them . I know that the common awards of fame are usually bestowed upon persons and pursuits I think far less deserving of them . They are ...
... admiration I entertain of the zeal and activity and self - denying love with which you pur- sue them . I know that the common awards of fame are usually bestowed upon persons and pursuits I think far less deserving of them . They are ...
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