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... poem . This would be fame , and fame was then the road to wealth . Philosophy would find few readers ; theology or a volume of sermons would either have roused bitter suspicion , or have met with total neglect ; a tragedy from a ...
... poem . This would be fame , and fame was then the road to wealth . Philosophy would find few readers ; theology or a volume of sermons would either have roused bitter suspicion , or have met with total neglect ; a tragedy from a ...
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... poem are given out ; and they are given out in such a way as to interest almost every member of the class . I remember being much struck with the reading of two poems . One was Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Glory of 1 Near Todmorden . her ...
... poem are given out ; and they are given out in such a way as to interest almost every member of the class . I remember being much struck with the reading of two poems . One was Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Glory of 1 Near Todmorden . her ...
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... poems were susceptible of a dramatic cast - that they were capable of being distributed , as it were , over the class , for full and com- plete rendering . But assurance , mixed with a most agreeable surprise , would have run into the ...
... poems were susceptible of a dramatic cast - that they were capable of being distributed , as it were , over the class , for full and com- plete rendering . But assurance , mixed with a most agreeable surprise , would have run into the ...
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... poem there are several speakers ; and what they say may well be distributed among dif- ferent readers . But more ... poem , is called into play . This is to begin at the right end . The ordinary " didactic treatment of such a poem begins ...
... poem there are several speakers ; and what they say may well be distributed among dif- ferent readers . But more ... poem , is called into play . This is to begin at the right end . The ordinary " didactic treatment of such a poem begins ...
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... Poem . Third Edition . Fcap . , 7s . 6d . Firmilian ; or , The Student of Badajoz . A Spasmodic Tragedy . Fcap . , 5s . Poems and Ballads of Goethe . Translated by Professor AYTOUN and Sir THEODORE MARTIN , K.C.B. Third Edition . Fcap ...
... Poem . Third Edition . Fcap . , 7s . 6d . Firmilian ; or , The Student of Badajoz . A Spasmodic Tragedy . Fcap . , 5s . Poems and Ballads of Goethe . Translated by Professor AYTOUN and Sir THEODORE MARTIN , K.C.B. Third Edition . Fcap ...
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