The Portico, Volume 3Tobias Watkins, Stephen Simpson Neale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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... speak it without fear of the " glistering guardian " with whose vengeance the author threatens all who dare to speak ill of his work , that the " Philosophical Essays , & c . " contain less philosophy , less sound sense , less reasoning ...
... speak it without fear of the " glistering guardian " with whose vengeance the author threatens all who dare to speak ill of his work , that the " Philosophical Essays , & c . " contain less philosophy , less sound sense , less reasoning ...
Page 128
... speak , without being hissed at , and our poet could not speak without a sound basting . Therefore , having fre- quently undergone this discipline , he learned at length to hold his tongue . But out of the house , when he could do it ...
... speak , without being hissed at , and our poet could not speak without a sound basting . Therefore , having fre- quently undergone this discipline , he learned at length to hold his tongue . But out of the house , when he could do it ...
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... speak : It flash'd such purpose ! -not to man alone The purport of its fiery gleam was known ; A passing sound was heard between a shriek , And that cold stifled sob , that spirits speak : It pass'd so slowly on the gusty wind It seem'd ...
... speak : It flash'd such purpose ! -not to man alone The purport of its fiery gleam was known ; A passing sound was heard between a shriek , And that cold stifled sob , that spirits speak : It pass'd so slowly on the gusty wind It seem'd ...
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