Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... give to this work something of that inimitable per- fection of design and execution which we see in an antique ... gives a series of most animated events and per . sonages from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century . It is true that ...
... give to this work something of that inimitable per- fection of design and execution which we see in an antique ... gives a series of most animated events and per . sonages from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century . It is true that ...
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... give a first direction to the youth- ful genius of many of our most illustrious writers . The boyish enthusiasm of Walter Scott was stirred , as with the sound of a trumpet , ' by the vivid recitals of the old Border rhapsodists ; and ...
... give a first direction to the youth- ful genius of many of our most illustrious writers . The boyish enthusiasm of Walter Scott was stirred , as with the sound of a trumpet , ' by the vivid recitals of the old Border rhapsodists ; and ...
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... give it the name of Ook - koo . ' . This is the prose of the cuckoo after its poetry . " Such is Gilfillan's eloquent tribute to the genius of Bruce ; we must , however , give the authorship of the " Cuckoo " to Logan.— Gilfillan's ...
... give it the name of Ook - koo . ' . This is the prose of the cuckoo after its poetry . " Such is Gilfillan's eloquent tribute to the genius of Bruce ; we must , however , give the authorship of the " Cuckoo " to Logan.— Gilfillan's ...
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... give us rather the impression of a man of varied accomplishments and excellent taste , than of deep feeling or ... gives promise of a sensibility , which his subsequent poetry did not fulfil . It was professedly written in his ...
... give us rather the impression of a man of varied accomplishments and excellent taste , than of deep feeling or ... gives promise of a sensibility , which his subsequent poetry did not fulfil . It was professedly written in his ...
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... give the burning hand of the peasant poet the squeeze of a kindred spirit , -kindred , we mean , in feeling and heart , although very far removed in strength of intellect and genius . " - Gilfillan's Less - known British Poets , " vol ...
... give the burning hand of the peasant poet the squeeze of a kindred spirit , -kindred , we mean , in feeling and heart , although very far removed in strength of intellect and genius . " - Gilfillan's Less - known British Poets , " vol ...
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