The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... never since deserted me . The romantic feelings which I have described as predominating in my mind , naturally rested upon and associated them- selves with the grand features of the landscape around me ; and the historical incidents or ...
... never since deserted me . The romantic feelings which I have described as predominating in my mind , naturally rested upon and associated them- selves with the grand features of the landscape around me ; and the historical incidents or ...
Page x
... never critically understood . During a severe illness , between his twelfth and sixteenth year , his stores of romantic and poetical reading received a vast increase , and one of his schoolfellows has given an interesting account of ...
... never critically understood . During a severe illness , between his twelfth and sixteenth year , his stores of romantic and poetical reading received a vast increase , and one of his schoolfellows has given an interesting account of ...
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... Never- theless , as in the edition of the Waverley Novels now in course of publication , I have imposed on myself the task of saying something concerning the purpose and history of each , in their turn , I am desirous that the Poems for ...
... Never- theless , as in the edition of the Waverley Novels now in course of publication , I have imposed on myself the task of saying something concerning the purpose and history of each , in their turn , I am desirous that the Poems for ...
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... never having been entangled in any literary quarrel or controversy ; and , which is a still more pleasing result , that I have been distinguished by the personal friendship of my most approved contemporaries of all parties . I adopted ...
... never having been entangled in any literary quarrel or controversy ; and , which is a still more pleasing result , that I have been distinguished by the personal friendship of my most approved contemporaries of all parties . I adopted ...
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... never be- come popular , owing chiefly to its being told in this species of elegiac verse . In the dilemma occasioned by this objection , the idea occurred to the Author of using the measured short line , which forms the structure of so ...
... never be- come popular , owing chiefly to its being told in this species of elegiac verse . In the dilemma occasioned by this objection , the idea occurred to the Author of using the measured short line , which forms the structure of so ...
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