The Farmer's Boy: A Rural PoemVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, ... at the Union Printing-Office, 1806 - Country life - 99 pages |
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... Brother , and which I shall very nearly transcribe as it lies be- fore me . In November , 1798 , I received a MS . which I was requested to read , and to give my opinion of it . It was left for me by Mr. GEORGE BLOOM- FIELD , the Brother ...
... Brother , and which I shall very nearly transcribe as it lies be- fore me . In November , 1798 , I received a MS . which I was requested to read , and to give my opinion of it . It was left for me by Mr. GEORGE BLOOM- FIELD , the Brother ...
Page iii
... Brother : -a Man to whom also I was entirely a stranger : -but whose Can- dour , good Sense , and brotherly Affection , appear in this Narrative ; and of the justness of whose Understanding , and the Goodness of his Heart , I PREFACE . iii.
... Brother : -a Man to whom also I was entirely a stranger : -but whose Can- dour , good Sense , and brotherly Affection , appear in this Narrative ; and of the justness of whose Understanding , and the Goodness of his Heart , I PREFACE . iii.
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... Brother , and lives at BURY , thus expresses himself . " As I spent near five years with the Author , from the time he was fourteen years and a half old till he was turned of twenty * , the most inte- resting time of life ( I mean the ...
... Brother , and lives at BURY , thus expresses himself . " As I spent near five years with the Author , from the time he was fourteen years and a half old till he was turned of twenty * , the most inte- resting time of life ( I mean the ...
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... R. BLOOMFIELD on the Death of this half - brother , which strongly manifest the affectionate Disposition of the Writer , and are among other proofs of his early poetic Genius . C. L. " When Robert was not above eleven years old , PREFACE .
... R. BLOOMFIELD on the Death of this half - brother , which strongly manifest the affectionate Disposition of the Writer , and are among other proofs of his early poetic Genius . C. L. " When Robert was not above eleven years old , PREFACE .
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... brother NAT ( then in London ) , to assist her ; mentioning that ROBERT was so small of his age that Mr. AUSTIN said he was not likely to be able to get his living by hard labour . " Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD on this inform'd his Mo- ther that ...
... brother NAT ( then in London ) , to assist her ; mentioning that ROBERT was so small of his age that Mr. AUSTIN said he was not likely to be able to get his living by hard labour . " Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD on this inform'd his Mo- ther that ...
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AUSONIUS Author behold Bell-alley bends beneath Benevolence Bird bless blow boast bosom bough Brother brow BUNBURY CAPEL LOFFT character charming cheer cheese clouds dairy dark delight doom'd DRAKE e'en Eclogue Euston fame Farmer's Boy feels field fill'd flies flock flower flows fragrance Garret Genius GEORGE BLOOMFIELD GEORGIC Giles ginal glowing green HADLEIGH head heart Heaven HONINGTON hues Ixworth labour Lambs at play light load loud LUCRETIUS Mastiff merits Midst milk mind morn Nature's night nightly numbers o'er PASTORAL POETRY pastures path peace pierce plain pleasure Poet Poet's Corner poor pow'r praise pride Printed Poem reign rest rise roar Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Rooks round rural SAPISTON seen shadows play shower smiles snow song soul spreads Spring stor❜d stream Suffolk SUMMER sweet taste tender thee thine Thomson thorn thou treads Troston verse village warm Whilst wild wood yields Zephyrus