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... course children in English literature before the Romantics . They were the subject of innumerable Eliza- bethan lyrics ; and through Dryden , Pope , and Prior there had been a whole tradition of minor , complimentary verses addressed to ...
... course children in English literature before the Romantics . They were the subject of innumerable Eliza- bethan lyrics ; and through Dryden , Pope , and Prior there had been a whole tradition of minor , complimentary verses addressed to ...
Page 32
... course be said too often about him , the balance with which he defined his poetic intentions . He lived at the turning - point of two worlds in direct antithesis , which through the balance of his creative intelligence he sought to ...
... course be said too often about him , the balance with which he defined his poetic intentions . He lived at the turning - point of two worlds in direct antithesis , which through the balance of his creative intelligence he sought to ...
Page 168
... course , we've the others . ' ' We've the others - we've indeed the others , ' I concurred . " The " others " - the " haunting pair , capable . . . of everything . exerting , in respect to the children , the very worst action small ...
... course , we've the others . ' ' We've the others - we've indeed the others , ' I concurred . " The " others " - the " haunting pair , capable . . . of everything . exerting , in respect to the children , the very worst action small ...
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