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... nature of his feelings towards Miss Martha . " - Bowles . " By ' the lady whose name is so often mentioned in these volumes , ' Mr. Bowles means Martha Blount , who attended her brother through the illness which terminated in his death ...
... nature of his feelings towards Miss Martha . " - Bowles . " By ' the lady whose name is so often mentioned in these volumes , ' Mr. Bowles means Martha Blount , who attended her brother through the illness which terminated in his death ...
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... nature at length overcame his French tastes and the fashion of the Court . His sympathies had a wider and nobler range ; his conceptions were clear and masculine ; and no one approached im in command of the stores of our language ...
... nature at length overcame his French tastes and the fashion of the Court . His sympathies had a wider and nobler range ; his conceptions were clear and masculine ; and no one approached im in command of the stores of our language ...
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... nature his study confines himself wholly to external or inanimate phenomena . Thomson and Cowper link their descriptions to the natural emotions and finer sentiments of the heart , and to all the healthful and ex- hilarating occupations ...
... nature his study confines himself wholly to external or inanimate phenomena . Thomson and Cowper link their descriptions to the natural emotions and finer sentiments of the heart , and to all the healthful and ex- hilarating occupations ...
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... nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 the lawn , the grove , and parterre ; the variety of perspective , the multiplied walks , and bounded wilderness . But Milton's description of the garden of Eden shows how well the epic ) bard had ...
... nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 the lawn , the grove , and parterre ; the variety of perspective , the multiplied walks , and bounded wilderness . But Milton's description of the garden of Eden shows how well the epic ) bard had ...
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... natural acuteness and sensibility were seen in his keen dark eyes , without a feeling approaching to grief , had he known that he was to fight a battle like that under which he was himself then sinking , even though the Temple of Fame ...
... natural acuteness and sensibility were seen in his keen dark eyes , without a feeling approaching to grief , had he known that he was to fight a battle like that under which he was himself then sinking , even though the Temple of Fame ...
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