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... less public manner of his talent for verse - making , Chatterton , already re- cognised as the first for attainments among all the lads in Colston's school , appears to have won a kind of reputa- tion with a few persons of the pew ...
... less public manner of his talent for verse - making , Chatterton , already re- cognised as the first for attainments among all the lads in Colston's school , appears to have won a kind of reputa- tion with a few persons of the pew ...
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... less common and much less successful in our time than in " the brave days of old , " when Beaumont and Fletcher , those " two noble kinsmen " ( by the consan- guity of kindred genius ) , merely car- ried to a greater and more successful ...
... less common and much less successful in our time than in " the brave days of old , " when Beaumont and Fletcher , those " two noble kinsmen " ( by the consan- guity of kindred genius ) , merely car- ried to a greater and more successful ...
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... less time , The chill and pallid day with autumn glory filling : Lime - golden lime . " -- p . 103 . a " The Children of Nature : Poem , " is a small , but interesting publication ; unpretending and modest in its external appearance ...
... less time , The chill and pallid day with autumn glory filling : Lime - golden lime . " -- p . 103 . a " The Children of Nature : Poem , " is a small , but interesting publication ; unpretending and modest in its external appearance ...
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... less to do , lounge and gossip a little , ask if there's any admission behind the scenes , or in the front to listen to a rehearsal ; if that is Grisi who is singing now ; and generally end by taking private boxes . The country ...
... less to do , lounge and gossip a little , ask if there's any admission behind the scenes , or in the front to listen to a rehearsal ; if that is Grisi who is singing now ; and generally end by taking private boxes . The country ...
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... less was thought than the satirist and the poet persuaded them- selves . That Wordsworth , however , has ex- ercised greater influence on English poetical literature than any man of our days , may be safely affirmed . With- out seeking ...
... less was thought than the satirist and the poet persuaded them- selves . That Wordsworth , however , has ex- ercised greater influence on English poetical literature than any man of our days , may be safely affirmed . With- out seeking ...
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Page 578 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 83 - Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams...
Page 275 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 11 - The wound it seemed both sore and sad To every Christian eye; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light...
Page 348 - No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 83 - O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more than infant softness, giving me Amid the fretful dwellings of mankind A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves.
Page 406 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 83 - Basked in the sun, and plunged and basked again Alternate, all a summer's day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's lofty height, Were bronzed with deepest radiance, stood alone Beneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked savage, in the thunder shower.
Page 10 - I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Page 249 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.