Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 |
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... Shakespeare's pretty description : " The seasons alter , hoary - headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the damask rose . " But no roses were there to spread their bosoms to such churlish visitors . Surrounded by an agree- able and ...
... Shakespeare's pretty description : " The seasons alter , hoary - headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the damask rose . " But no roses were there to spread their bosoms to such churlish visitors . Surrounded by an agree- able and ...
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... Shakespeare , than that the simple and usual ex- pression , " gentle pair , " should have been stolen from Fletcher . When passages from various writers resemble each other , we impute such resemblance , accord- ing to the degree of its ...
... Shakespeare , than that the simple and usual ex- pression , " gentle pair , " should have been stolen from Fletcher . When passages from various writers resemble each other , we impute such resemblance , accord- ing to the degree of its ...
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... Shakespeare ! and base , said I , as well as unkind . Garrick ! who had restored that transcendent author to the taste of the public , after it had recreantly and long re- ceded from him ; especially as this restorer had been the ...
... Shakespeare ! and base , said I , as well as unkind . Garrick ! who had restored that transcendent author to the taste of the public , after it had recreantly and long re- ceded from him ; especially as this restorer had been the ...
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... Shakespeare . Its omission , as all my correspondents observe , would have been much more consonant than its appear- ance to the philanthropy of the biographer . I have , it is true , seen a great deal of nonsense about your Tour in the ...
... Shakespeare . Its omission , as all my correspondents observe , would have been much more consonant than its appear- ance to the philanthropy of the biographer . I have , it is true , seen a great deal of nonsense about your Tour in the ...
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... Shakespeare stole the deer . To the many other pleasures of that excursion , was added an ineffably pleasing sensa- tion , the result of finding myself , for the first time of my life , in the Shakesperian region ; in meet- ing , on our ...
... Shakespeare stole the deer . To the many other pleasures of that excursion , was added an ineffably pleasing sensa- tion , the result of finding myself , for the first time of my life , in the Shakesperian region ; in meet- ing , on our ...
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Adieu admire agreeable amiable amongst ANNA SEWARD Avignon bard beautiful benevolence blank verse celebrated character charming cold composition criticism dear delight Dewes Dr Johnson elegant envy Epic Poetry epithets excellence eyes fame fancy father feel flattering genius gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE Gibraltar glow graces happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope hour idea imagination ingenious interest Knowles lady late LETTER Lichfield light literary Lord Lucy Porter lyre Madam March 25 Milton mind MISS WESTON Monody morning muse nature never nymph observe odes Ossian Paradise Lost passages perhaps Petrarch Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise prose regret rendered rhyme rocks scene sensibility Seward Shakespeare shew sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime sure sweet talents taste thou tion truth Vaucluse verse virtues Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish writings youth