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... bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local ... body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark ...
... bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local ... body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark ...
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... body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin literature ; and literature was even with them , as , in the long run , it always is with its enemies . The best book on their side of the question is the charming narra ...
... body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin literature ; and literature was even with them , as , in the long run , it always is with its enemies . The best book on their side of the question is the charming narra ...
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... body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tre- We cannot refrain from adding a few words respecting a topic on which the de- fenders of Charles are fond of dwelling . If ...
... body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tre- We cannot refrain from adding a few words respecting a topic on which the de- fenders of Charles are fond of dwelling . If ...
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... body . We shall proceed to notice some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries . And , for that purpose , it is necessary to take a short sur- vey of the parties into which the political world was at that ...
... body . We shall proceed to notice some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries . And , for that purpose , it is necessary to take a short sur- vey of the parties into which the political world was at that ...
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... body to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles the First , or the easy good - breeding for which the court of Charles the ...
... body to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles the First , or the easy good - breeding for which the court of Charles the ...
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