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... present . In the world of his college and the larger world of the university he had come to be a figure of recognized intellectual and literary distinction ; now he is an obscure solitary at home , with nothing tangible to show for his ...
... present . In the world of his college and the larger world of the university he had come to be a figure of recognized intellectual and literary distinction ; now he is an obscure solitary at home , with nothing tangible to show for his ...
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... present unripeness and diffidence , was written in the very month , or certainly within two months , of the composition of Lycidas , perhaps the greatest short poem in the language . The immediate occasion was , as everyone knows , the ...
... present unripeness and diffidence , was written in the very month , or certainly within two months , of the composition of Lycidas , perhaps the greatest short poem in the language . The immediate occasion was , as everyone knows , the ...
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... present loneliness , the impossibility of finding another such friend - avowals especially moving from a man so often gratuitously credited with a proud self- sufficiency . But happy memories of Italy , even if they have some logical ...
... present loneliness , the impossibility of finding another such friend - avowals especially moving from a man so often gratuitously credited with a proud self- sufficiency . But happy memories of Italy , even if they have some logical ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
Copyright | |
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