Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... tion , Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d . There is doubtless , on the one hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times , which obliges us to adopt such a con- clusion ...
... tion , Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d . There is doubtless , on the one hand , no absolute neces- sity deducible from law or custom , as either operated in those times , which obliges us to adopt such a con- clusion ...
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... tion , but even upon the eye of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English church , the unbaptized are buried with maimed rites , ' shorn of their obsequies , and sternly denied that sweet and solemn farewell ...
... tion , but even upon the eye of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English church , the unbaptized are buried with maimed rites , ' shorn of their obsequies , and sternly denied that sweet and solemn farewell ...
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... tion succeeding to his own , not only from the curiosity , and perhaps something of a scandalous 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 ...
... tion succeeding to his own , not only from the curiosity , and perhaps something of a scandalous 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 ...
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... tion , Pope's , Theobald's , Sir Thomas Hanmer's , Bishop Warburton's , all upon the heels of one another ? With such facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to ...
... tion , Pope's , Theobald's , Sir Thomas Hanmer's , Bishop Warburton's , all upon the heels of one another ? With such facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to ...
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... tion from his eccentric grandfather . He was practised daily in talking Latin , to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek ; and finally he became unusually learned for his rank , but the most absolute and ...
... tion from his eccentric grandfather . He was practised daily in talking Latin , to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek ; and finally he became unusually learned for his rank , but the most absolute and ...
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