A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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Page 21
... Passion o ' me ! how I run on ! There's that that would be thought upon , I trow , besides the bride : The business of the kitchen's great , For it is fit that men should eat , Nor was it there denied . Just in the nick the cook knocked ...
... Passion o ' me ! how I run on ! There's that that would be thought upon , I trow , besides the bride : The business of the kitchen's great , For it is fit that men should eat , Nor was it there denied . Just in the nick the cook knocked ...
Page 38
... passion . They see everything through so thick and deeply coloured an atmosphere of self , that its real shape goes for very little in their conception of it ; change only the hue of the haze , or the halo , with which it is thus ...
... passion . They see everything through so thick and deeply coloured an atmosphere of self , that its real shape goes for very little in their conception of it ; change only the hue of the haze , or the halo , with which it is thus ...
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... passionate ear- nestness of such verses as the following : - The time draws near , and hasteth on , In which strange works shall be begun ; And prosecutions , whereon shall Depend much future bliss or WITHER . 88 39 99 Amygdala ...
... passionate ear- nestness of such verses as the following : - The time draws near , and hasteth on , In which strange works shall be begun ; And prosecutions , whereon shall Depend much future bliss or WITHER . 88 39 99 Amygdala ...
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... passion , or indeed of any breath of actual living humanity , his poetry has almost none . This , no doubt , was the cause of the neglect into which after a short time it was allowed to drop ; and this limited quality of his genius may ...
... passion , or indeed of any breath of actual living humanity , his poetry has almost none . This , no doubt , was the cause of the neglect into which after a short time it was allowed to drop ; and this limited quality of his genius may ...
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... passion ; But seek thou further : other places , sure , May yield a face as fair , a love more pure . Leave , oh then leave , fond swain , this idle course ; For love's a good no mortal wight can force . And here is another short ...
... passion ; But seek thou further : other places , sure , May yield a face as fair , a love more pure . Leave , oh then leave , fond swain , this idle course ; For love's a good no mortal wight can force . And here is another short ...
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