Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 2Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1867 |
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... native country . Cowper wrote from no system ; he had this country - was , with all its horrors and extrava- gance , something better than mere delineations of manners or incidental satire . The French Revolution came next , and seemed ...
... native country . Cowper wrote from no system ; he had this country - was , with all its horrors and extrava- gance , something better than mere delineations of manners or incidental satire . The French Revolution came next , and seemed ...
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... natives of each country think their own the best - the patriot boasts- His first , best country , ever is at home . If ... native hardiness of soul , True to imagined right , above control , While even the peasant boasts these rights to ...
... natives of each country think their own the best - the patriot boasts- His first , best country , ever is at home . If ... native hardiness of soul , True to imagined right , above control , While even the peasant boasts these rights to ...
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... native wilds impart , Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And even those ills that round his mansion rise , Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies . Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms , And dear that hill which ...
... native wilds impart , Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And even those ills that round his mansion rise , Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies . Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms , And dear that hill which ...
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... native place , whence he was glad to £ 300 should be laid out in erecting a monument remove as tutor in the family of Mr Graham of to his memory in some conspicuous situation at Balgowan . While attending his pupil ( afterwards ...
... native place , whence he was glad to £ 300 should be laid out in erecting a monument remove as tutor in the family of Mr Graham of to his memory in some conspicuous situation at Balgowan . While attending his pupil ( afterwards ...
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... native beams let Beauty glow ; What need is there of other day , Than the twin - stars that light those hills of snow ? THOMAS CHATTERTON , The success of Macpherson's Ossian seems to have prompted the remarkable forgeries of Chatterton ...
... native beams let Beauty glow ; What need is there of other day , Than the twin - stars that light those hills of snow ? THOMAS CHATTERTON , The success of Macpherson's Ossian seems to have prompted the remarkable forgeries of Chatterton ...
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