Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... it , may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house . Ever believe me , my dear sir , Your faithful and obliged , THOMAS DE QUINCEY . . 9 101 . 167 227 263 BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS .
... it , may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house . Ever believe me , my dear sir , Your faithful and obliged , THOMAS DE QUINCEY . . 9 101 . 167 227 263 BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS .
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... senses , it is difficult to suppose that any parents would risk their own reproaches , by putting the fulfilment of so grave a duty on the hazard of a convulsion fit . The case of royal children is different ; their baptisms , it is ...
... senses , it is difficult to suppose that any parents would risk their own reproaches , by putting the fulfilment of so grave a duty on the hazard of a convulsion fit . The case of royal children is different ; their baptisms , it is ...
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... sense of his own power in a difficult and rare accomplish- ment for some peculiar force or beauty in the Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his pedantry ...
... sense of his own power in a difficult and rare accomplish- ment for some peculiar force or beauty in the Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his pedantry ...
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... sense from Lord Shaftes- bury ; not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal impri- matur would be influential and serviceable no ...
... sense from Lord Shaftes- bury ; not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal impri- matur would be influential and serviceable no ...
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... sense , by birth as well as by connections , bore the beautiful name of Mary Arden , a name derived from the ancient forest district 10 of the country ; and doubt- less she merits a more elaborate notice than our slender materials will ...
... sense , by birth as well as by connections , bore the beautiful name of Mary Arden , a name derived from the ancient forest district 10 of the country ; and doubt- less she merits a more elaborate notice than our slender materials will ...
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