Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors ; from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... poet , being now quali - employed , it is select , nervous , and suitable . In fied by experience , published a satire on the Uni- versal Passion - the Love of Fame , which is at once keen and powerful , and the nearest approach we have ...
... poet , being now quali - employed , it is select , nervous , and suitable . In fied by experience , published a satire on the Uni- versal Passion - the Love of Fame , which is at once keen and powerful , and the nearest approach we have ...
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... poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came early , and some lines written by him at the age of fourteen , show how soon his manner was formed : - Now I surveyed my native faculties , And traced my actions to their teeming ...
... poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came early , and some lines written by him at the age of fourteen , show how soon his manner was formed : - Now I surveyed my native faculties , And traced my actions to their teeming ...
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... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
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... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in the exuberance of his genius , which sometimes required to be dis- ciplined and controlled . The poetic glow is ...
... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in the exuberance of his genius , which sometimes required to be dis- ciplined and controlled . The poetic glow is ...
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... poet , was a native of Wales , being born at Aberglasslyn , Car- marthenshire , in 1700. His father was a solicitor , and intended his son for the same profession . latter , however , had a taste for the fine arts , and rambled over his ...
... poet , was a native of Wales , being born at Aberglasslyn , Car- marthenshire , in 1700. His father was a solicitor , and intended his son for the same profession . latter , however , had a taste for the fine arts , and rambled over his ...
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