The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Volume 1W.J.Widdleton, 1865 - 413 pages |
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... father , 35 John Street , Bedford Row , on the 26th of July , 1802. Bitton House , at Teignmouth , in the county of Devon , his father's country seat , is how- ever to be regarded as his paternal home . He was called Winthrop from the ...
... father , 35 John Street , Bedford Row , on the 26th of July , 1802. Bitton House , at Teignmouth , in the county of Devon , his father's country seat , is how- ever to be regarded as his paternal home . He was called Winthrop from the ...
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... Father , To trust in Him , to love and to adore Him . You through my lingering illness wakeful sat , The tedious nights beside me , while your voice , Sweeter than Zephyr's breath , soothed my complaints , Assuaged my pains , and lulled ...
... Father , To trust in Him , to love and to adore Him . You through my lingering illness wakeful sat , The tedious nights beside me , while your voice , Sweeter than Zephyr's breath , soothed my complaints , Assuaged my pains , and lulled ...
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... father's strict and judicious criticism . He never spared the pruning - knife , preferring that the literary exercises of a boy should be stiff and formal , rather than loose and careless . He required plain sense plainly spoken , and ...
... father's strict and judicious criticism . He never spared the pruning - knife , preferring that the literary exercises of a boy should be stiff and formal , rather than loose and careless . He required plain sense plainly spoken , and ...
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... father's verses , " that the last of his mother's days might be far distant , " was not granted . She died about a year afterwards , too soon for the loss to be severely felt by the younger children . It can , how- ever , scarcely be ...
... father's verses , " that the last of his mother's days might be far distant , " was not granted . She died about a year afterwards , too soon for the loss to be severely felt by the younger children . It can , how- ever , scarcely be ...
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... father had been educated , and where he had been preceded by his eldest brother , William Mack- worth . This important event took place on the 28th of March , 1814 , before he had completed his twelfth year . Of the feelings with which ...
... father had been educated , and where he had been preceded by his eldest brother , William Mack- worth . This important event took place on the 28th of March , 1814 , before he had completed his twelfth year . Of the feelings with which ...
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Abbess Arminius beam beauteous beauty beneath blessed bliss blue bower breath bright brow charm cheek cold Count Otto courser dance dark dear DERWENT COLERIDGE dragon dream earth Eton Etonian eyes faded fair Fair Lady fairy fancy fat friars father fears flings flowers fond frown gaze grave grief half hand hath hear heard heart heaven Helen HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE holy hope hopes and fears John Moultrie King Arthur Knight Lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord Lurley lute maiden minstrel mirth murmur never Nonny o'er pain pale passion poems Praed's praise prayer rose round sigh silent sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit strange sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou wilt thought to-day to-night tone Troubadour Vidal voice Walmer Castle wandering weep Whate'er whispered wild WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED young youth