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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... true that few or none of the poets we have named had much im- mediate influence on literature : Gray was ridiculed , and Collins was neglected , because both public taste and criticism had been vitiated and reduced to a low ebb . The ...
... true that few or none of the poets we have named had much im- mediate influence on literature : Gray was ridiculed , and Collins was neglected , because both public taste and criticism had been vitiated and reduced to a low ebb . The ...
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... true genius . These coruscations sometimes subside into low and vulgar ideas , as towards the close of the following noble passage : — Where are the mighty thunderbolts of war ? The Roman Cæsars and the Grecian chiefs , The boast of ...
... true genius . These coruscations sometimes subside into low and vulgar ideas , as towards the close of the following noble passage : — Where are the mighty thunderbolts of war ? The Roman Cæsars and the Grecian chiefs , The boast of ...
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... true majesty in man ) , Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? Thou , who didst put to flight Primeval Silence , when ...
... true majesty in man ) , Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? Thou , who didst put to flight Primeval Silence , when ...
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... true existence is not yet begun . His glorious course was yesterday complete ; Death then was welcome , yet life still is sweet . [ Procrastination . ] Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ...
... true existence is not yet begun . His glorious course was yesterday complete ; Death then was welcome , yet life still is sweet . [ Procrastination . ] Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ...
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... true and beautiful are the descriptions in the poem , and so entirely do they harmonise with those fresh feelings and glowing impulses which all would wish to cherish , that a love of nature seems to be synony- mous with a love of ...
... true and beautiful are the descriptions in the poem , and so entirely do they harmonise with those fresh feelings and glowing impulses which all would wish to cherish , that a love of nature seems to be synony- mous with a love of ...
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