Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets, Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns: With Criticisms on Their Works, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writersdirection of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, 1851 - 508 páginas |
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... sweet vicissitudes ' of each . Here you have the clear - eyed observer of man as he is , catching ' the manners living as they rise , ' and fixing them in pictures where not their minutest lineament is or ever can be lost here he is the ...
... sweet vicissitudes ' of each . Here you have the clear - eyed observer of man as he is , catching ' the manners living as they rise , ' and fixing them in pictures where not their minutest lineament is or ever can be lost here he is the ...
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... sweet tone of philosophic melancholy which pervades the whole . Written in prison during the quiet evening of a tempes- tuous life , we feel , in its perusal , that we are the compa- nions of a superior mind , nursed in contemplation ...
... sweet tone of philosophic melancholy which pervades the whole . Written in prison during the quiet evening of a tempes- tuous life , we feel , in its perusal , that we are the compa- nions of a superior mind , nursed in contemplation ...
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... sweet and true poet , and a munificent patron of letters , -- there is scarcely one of the aspects in which we view him where he does not shine with a remarkable brightness . In some of the pursuits indeed in which he attained ...
... sweet and true poet , and a munificent patron of letters , -- there is scarcely one of the aspects in which we view him where he does not shine with a remarkable brightness . In some of the pursuits indeed in which he attained ...
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... Sweet Spenser - sweetest bard ; yet not more sweet Than pure was he , and not more pure than wise , High priest of all the Muses ' mysteries . Southey . 66 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Contributed an essay to the " Edinburgh Review , " in which ...
... Sweet Spenser - sweetest bard ; yet not more sweet Than pure was he , and not more pure than wise , High priest of all the Muses ' mysteries . Southey . 66 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Contributed an essay to the " Edinburgh Review , " in which ...
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... sweet sounds that would cloy by their very sweetness , but that the ear is con- stantly relieved and enchanted by their continued variety of modulation - dwelling on the pauses of the action , or flowing on in a fuller tide of harmony ...
... sweet sounds that would cloy by their very sweetness , but that the ear is con- stantly relieved and enchanted by their continued variety of modulation - dwelling on the pauses of the action , or flowing on in a fuller tide of harmony ...
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