Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... interest in the original series . But at all events , good or bad , they are now ten- dered to the appropriation of your individual house , the MESSRS . TICKNOR AND FIELDS , according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a ...
... interest in the original series . But at all events , good or bad , they are now ten- dered to the appropriation of your individual house , the MESSRS . TICKNOR AND FIELDS , according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a ...
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... interest , which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife , but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preeminently successful ; of ...
... interest , which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife , but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preeminently successful ; of ...
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... interest in political questions , had begun to express itself at Oxford , and still more so at Cambridge . Academic persons stationed themselves as sentinels at London , for the purpose of watching the court and the course of public ...
... interest in political questions , had begun to express itself at Oxford , and still more so at Cambridge . Academic persons stationed themselves as sentinels at London , for the purpose of watching the court and the course of public ...
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... not fail to furnish a study of the most profound interest ; and with regard to his mother in particular , if the modern hypothesis be true , and if we are indeed to deduce from her the stupendous intellect of her son , in 34 SHAKSPEARE.
... not fail to furnish a study of the most profound interest ; and with regard to his mother in particular , if the modern hypothesis be true , and if we are indeed to deduce from her the stupendous intellect of her son , in 34 SHAKSPEARE.
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... interest would have reached £ 28 , equal to £ 140 of modern money ; for mortgages in Elizabeth's age readily produced ten per cent . A woman who should bring at this day an annual income of £ 140 to a provincial tradesman , living in a ...
... interest would have reached £ 28 , equal to £ 140 of modern money ; for mortgages in Elizabeth's age readily produced ten per cent . A woman who should bring at this day an annual income of £ 140 to a provincial tradesman , living in a ...
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