Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... equally impor- tant to a great poet's fame , of rank and of genius . The Prince of Wales and John Milton ; the first being then about sixteen years old , the other about eight . Now these two great powers , as we may call them , these ...
... equally impor- tant to a great poet's fame , of rank and of genius . The Prince of Wales and John Milton ; the first being then about sixteen years old , the other about eight . Now these two great powers , as we may call them , these ...
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... equally important , Birmingham , the chief town of Warwick- shire , and the adjacent district , the seat of our hard- ware manufactures , was the very focus of disaffection towards the royal cause . Not only , therefore , would this ...
... equally important , Birmingham , the chief town of Warwick- shire , and the adjacent district , the seat of our hard- ware manufactures , was the very focus of disaffection towards the royal cause . Not only , therefore , would this ...
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... equally incapable of adding one ray of color or one pencil of light to the supernatural haio . Having , therefore , thus pointedly guarded ourselves from misconstruction , and consenting to entertain the question as one in which we ...
... equally incapable of adding one ray of color or one pencil of light to the supernatural haio . Having , therefore , thus pointedly guarded ourselves from misconstruction , and consenting to entertain the question as one in which we ...
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... equally stinging , on his inability to support his family , and on his obligations to her father's purse . Shakspeare , we may be sure , would be ruminating every hour on the means of his deliverance from so painful a depen- dency ; and ...
... equally stinging , on his inability to support his family , and on his obligations to her father's purse . Shakspeare , we may be sure , would be ruminating every hour on the means of his deliverance from so painful a depen- dency ; and ...
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... equally unworthy of him , because not equally malignant , but otherwise equally below his intellect , no less than his scholar- ship ; we mean the inscription on his gravestone . This , as a sort of siste viator appeal to futur sextons ...
... equally unworthy of him , because not equally malignant , but otherwise equally below his intellect , no less than his scholar- ship ; we mean the inscription on his gravestone . This , as a sort of siste viator appeal to futur sextons ...
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