Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... HENRY KIRKE WHITE , selected , with prefatory Re- marks , by ROBERT SOUTHEY , Esq . The only complete Editions . In 2 vols . 8vo . price 11. 4s .; and in I vol . 24mo . with engraved title and vignettes , price 5s . bds . N. B. The ...
... HENRY KIRKE WHITE , selected , with prefatory Re- marks , by ROBERT SOUTHEY , Esq . The only complete Editions . In 2 vols . 8vo . price 11. 4s .; and in I vol . 24mo . with engraved title and vignettes , price 5s . bds . N. B. The ...
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... Henry Kirke White . Robert Burns - -- 216 A RETROSPECT OF LITERATURE . N ° I. N ° II . N ° III . A VIEW OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE . N ° I. N ° II . 265 296 329 361 375 LECTURES ON POETRY . N ° I. THE PRE - X CONTENTS .
... Henry Kirke White . Robert Burns - -- 216 A RETROSPECT OF LITERATURE . N ° I. N ° II . N ° III . A VIEW OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE . N ° I. N ° II . 265 296 329 361 375 LECTURES ON POETRY . N ° I. THE PRE - X CONTENTS .
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... ( Henry Kirke White ) , being but of a moderate , the other ( Robert Burns ) of a rare standard ; but both of genuine poetic temperament . Henry Kirke White . Nothing is trifling or insignificant in childhood , when every thing conduces ...
... ( Henry Kirke White ) , being but of a moderate , the other ( Robert Burns ) of a rare standard ; but both of genuine poetic temperament . Henry Kirke White . Nothing is trifling or insignificant in childhood , when every thing conduces ...
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... Henry Kirke White has been embalmed rather by the genius of his biographer ( Dr. Southey ) than his own . He was , unquestion- ably , a youth of extraordinary promise ; but it must be acknowledged , that he has left little which would ...
... Henry Kirke White has been embalmed rather by the genius of his biographer ( Dr. Southey ) than his own . He was , unquestion- ably , a youth of extraordinary promise ; but it must be acknowledged , that he has left little which would ...
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... Henry ? Oh , none ! - another busy brood of beings Will shoot up in the interim , and none Will hold him in ... Kirke White's labours in verse was a solitary book of " The Christiad , " a sacred poem on the sufferings and death of our ...
... Henry ? Oh , none ! - another busy brood of beings Will shoot up in the interim , and none Will hold him in ... Kirke White's labours in verse was a solitary book of " The Christiad , " a sacred poem on the sufferings and death of our ...
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