Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... existed , but that his greatness has been rehearsed and predicted in one or other of his parents . And it cannot be denied that in the most eminent men , where we have had the means of pursu- ing the investigation , the mother has more ...
... existed , but that his greatness has been rehearsed and predicted in one or other of his parents . And it cannot be denied that in the most eminent men , where we have had the means of pursu- ing the investigation , the mother has more ...
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... existed of riding on horseback to the play . Gentlemen , who rode valuable horses , would assuredly not expose them systematically to the injury of stand- ing exposed to cold for two or even four hours ; and persons of inferior rank ...
... existed of riding on horseback to the play . Gentlemen , who rode valuable horses , would assuredly not expose them systematically to the injury of stand- ing exposed to cold for two or even four hours ; and persons of inferior rank ...
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... existed . Thus barred from all open social intercourse , women could not develope or express any character by word or action . Even to have a character , violated , to a Grecian mind , the ideal portrait of feminine excel- lence ...
... existed . Thus barred from all open social intercourse , women could not develope or express any character by word or action . Even to have a character , violated , to a Grecian mind , the ideal portrait of feminine excel- lence ...
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... And how did he surmount this unhappy self - distrust ? Paradoxical as it may sound , we will venture to say , that with the innumerable aids for interpreting Homer which even then existed , a man sufficiently acquainted with 114 POPE .
... And how did he surmount this unhappy self - distrust ? Paradoxical as it may sound , we will venture to say , that with the innumerable aids for interpreting Homer which even then existed , a man sufficiently acquainted with 114 POPE .
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Thomas De Quincey. which even then existed , a man sufficiently acquainted with Latin might make a translation even critically exact . This Pope was not long in discovering . Other alleviations of his labor concurred , and in a ratio ...
Thomas De Quincey. which even then existed , a man sufficiently acquainted with Latin might make a translation even critically exact . This Pope was not long in discovering . Other alleviations of his labor concurred , and in a ratio ...
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