The British review and London critical journal1817 |
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... become at length too substantially miserable even for effect in poetic de- scription . Really , poetry is not to be an excuse for every thing . Nor do we see why , through the medium of verse , a man has 1 meet the eye in this beaten ...
... become at length too substantially miserable even for effect in poetic de- scription . Really , poetry is not to be an excuse for every thing . Nor do we see why , through the medium of verse , a man has 1 meet the eye in this beaten ...
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... become at length too substantially miserable even for effect in poetic de- scription . Really , poetry is not to be an excuse for every thing . Nor do we see why , through the medium of verse , a man has a right to tell us that , after ...
... become at length too substantially miserable even for effect in poetic de- scription . Really , poetry is not to be an excuse for every thing . Nor do we see why , through the medium of verse , a man has a right to tell us that , after ...
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... become her best . But , alas ! how could she see so much , and not covet the whole ! How has it been possible for a mind which has felt " how awful goodness is , " and " virtue in her own shape how lovely ; " which has visited the ...
... become her best . But , alas ! how could she see so much , and not covet the whole ! How has it been possible for a mind which has felt " how awful goodness is , " and " virtue in her own shape how lovely ; " which has visited the ...
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... become paramount over all those vagrant , unsocial , and turbulent delights , which have hurried him out of the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace . At present we cannot say that we greatly sympathise with this Parent in the ...
... become paramount over all those vagrant , unsocial , and turbulent delights , which have hurried him out of the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace . At present we cannot say that we greatly sympathise with this Parent in the ...
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... become wise and good ; or , that they are free from error : but it may be truly stated , that they now constitute a very improved society , that their worst habits are gone , and that their minor ones would soon disappear under a ...
... become wise and good ; or , that they are free from error : but it may be truly stated , that they now constitute a very improved society , that their worst habits are gone , and that their minor ones would soon disappear under a ...
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