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... early age Robert had a tendency to intermittent moodiness . Throughout his life he was visited by periodic fits of depression from which ( like Dr. Johnson ) he sought refuge in company and conviviality . Some of his earliest poems are ...
... early age Robert had a tendency to intermittent moodiness . Throughout his life he was visited by periodic fits of depression from which ( like Dr. Johnson ) he sought refuge in company and conviviality . Some of his earliest poems are ...
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... earliest poems , his earliest letters , and the opening entries in the Commonplace Book he began in the spring of 1783 ... early hardship , was unfit for labour . - My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . – There ...
... earliest poems , his earliest letters , and the opening entries in the Commonplace Book he began in the spring of 1783 ... early hardship , was unfit for labour . - My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . – There ...
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... early work . Some- times he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very early song , ' I Dream'd I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing ' ; sometimes he writes in swinging ballad style , as in the ' The Ronalds of the Bennals ...
... early work . Some- times he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very early song , ' I Dream'd I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing ' ; sometimes he writes in swinging ballad style , as in the ' The Ronalds of the Bennals ...
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