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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... young gentlemen , and was a man of intelligence and piety . Isaac was the eldest of nine children , and began early to display precocity of genius . At four he com- menced to study Latin at home , and afterwards , under one Pinhorn , a ...
... young gentlemen , and was a man of intelligence and piety . Isaac was the eldest of nine children , and began early to display precocity of genius . At four he com- menced to study Latin at home , and afterwards , under one Pinhorn , a ...
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... YOUNG . He Edward Young , born 1681 , died 1765. " I now come , " says Shaw , in his Hist . Eng . Lit , " to Edward Young , the most powerful of the secondary poets of the epoch . began his career in the unsuccessful pursuit of fortune ...
... YOUNG . He Edward Young , born 1681 , died 1765. " I now come , " says Shaw , in his Hist . Eng . Lit , " to Edward Young , the most powerful of the secondary poets of the epoch . began his career in the unsuccessful pursuit of fortune ...
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... young men in the university who were aspirants after literary eminence , he readily listened to the advice of a lady , the friend of his mother , and deter- mined to try his fortune in the great metro- polis , London . " In 1725 Thomson ...
... young men in the university who were aspirants after literary eminence , he readily listened to the advice of a lady , the friend of his mother , and deter- mined to try his fortune in the great metro- polis , London . " In 1725 Thomson ...
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... young poet wrapt in his plaid , under a whin - bush , while the storm was blow- ing , or gazing at the rainbow from the summit of a fence , -or admiring at Loch- leven and its old ruined castle , -or weaving around the form of some ...
... young poet wrapt in his plaid , under a whin - bush , while the storm was blow- ing , or gazing at the rainbow from the summit of a fence , -or admiring at Loch- leven and its old ruined castle , -or weaving around the form of some ...
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... young imaginative soul , and that at last we find him ' resting in the hopes of an eternal day . ' ' Lochleven ' is the spent echo of the Sea- sons , ' although , as we said before , its descrip- tions possess considerable merit . His ...
... young imaginative soul , and that at last we find him ' resting in the hopes of an eternal day . ' ' Lochleven ' is the spent echo of the Sea- sons , ' although , as we said before , its descrip- tions possess considerable merit . His ...
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