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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... youth and old age , and Henry Mackenzie . Among Historians we have David Hume , Dr. William Robertson , William Tytler , Edward Gibbon . In Divinity there shine the names of Butler , Bishop Warburton , Bishop Lowth , Dr. C. Middleton ...
... youth and old age , and Henry Mackenzie . Among Historians we have David Hume , Dr. William Robertson , William Tytler , Edward Gibbon . In Divinity there shine the names of Butler , Bishop Warburton , Bishop Lowth , Dr. C. Middleton ...
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... youth , it is entitled to a very indulgent con- sideration ; and perhaps it gives promise of a sensibility , which his subsequent poetry did not fulfil . It was professedly written in his seventeenth , but published in his nineteenth ...
... youth , it is entitled to a very indulgent con- sideration ; and perhaps it gives promise of a sensibility , which his subsequent poetry did not fulfil . It was professedly written in his seventeenth , but published in his nineteenth ...
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... youth , with a partial eulogy upon his genius , such as might be well excused from a father so situated . At the end of six years more , his other son , Montague Beattie , was also cut off in the flower of his youth . This misfortune ...
... youth , with a partial eulogy upon his genius , such as might be well excused from a father so situated . At the end of six years more , his other son , Montague Beattie , was also cut off in the flower of his youth . This misfortune ...
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... youth of the metropolis , to whom he was the ' wit , songster , and mimic . That his convivial powers were extraordinary , is proved by the fact of one of his contemporaries , who survived to be a correspondent of Burns , doubting if ...
... youth of the metropolis , to whom he was the ' wit , songster , and mimic . That his convivial powers were extraordinary , is proved by the fact of one of his contemporaries , who survived to be a correspondent of Burns , doubting if ...
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... youth and the beauty of men , Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond care to preserve them is vain , Time kills them as fast as he goes . Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty , Since both of them ...
... youth and the beauty of men , Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond care to preserve them is vain , Time kills them as fast as he goes . Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty , Since both of them ...
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