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The following lines , written a few weeks before his death , possess a peculiar
and melancholy interest : Farewell , Life ! my senses swim , Welcome , Life ! the
spirit strives : And the world is growing dim ; Strength returns , and hope revives ...
The following lines , written a few weeks before his death , possess a peculiar
and melancholy interest : Farewell , Life ! my senses swim , Welcome , Life ! the
spirit strives : And the world is growing dim ; Strength returns , and hope revives ...
Page 132
Mr . " Horne , in his New Spirit of the Age , ' characterises it as a piece of
passionate action with the bones of poetry . ' Van Dyck ' s portrait of Strafford , so
well known from copies and engravings , will always , we suspect , eclipse or
supersede ...
Mr . " Horne , in his New Spirit of the Age , ' characterises it as a piece of
passionate action with the bones of poetry . ' Van Dyck ' s portrait of Strafford , so
well known from copies and engravings , will always , we suspect , eclipse or
supersede ...
Page 209
Can we retain the spirit of Benbow minus that pigtail to which elegant gentlemen
have a natural objection ? Can we be at once polished , yet free from what the
newspapers call juvenile extravngance ? ' Such is our ambition for Eustace .
Can we retain the spirit of Benbow minus that pigtail to which elegant gentlemen
have a natural objection ? Can we be at once polished , yet free from what the
newspapers call juvenile extravngance ? ' Such is our ambition for Eustace .
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Contents
TRAVELLERS | 1 |
Capt Hugh Clupperton 17881827 | 7 |
Joseph Forsyth 17631815 | 14 |
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| Title | Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7 Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Robert Carruthers |
| Editor | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2006 |
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