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... better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the earning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to the Luder age of ...
... better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the earning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to the Luder age of ...
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... better illustrate our position ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , opinion respecting our own great poet , than wherever success was not impossible . The by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan speeches must be read as majestic ...
... better illustrate our position ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , opinion respecting our own great poet , than wherever success was not impossible . The by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan speeches must be read as majestic ...
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... better upheld abroad , or the seat of justice better filled at home . And it was rarely that any opposition , which stopped short of open rebellion , provoked the resent- ment of the liberal and magnanimous usurper . The institutions ...
... better upheld abroad , or the seat of justice better filled at home . And it was rarely that any opposition , which stopped short of open rebellion , provoked the resent- ment of the liberal and magnanimous usurper . The institutions ...
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... better , for ex- amusement of the day , the terror of the night , ample , in the time of Elizabeth than in the the fertile source of wild superstitions . It time of Egbert ; and they also wrote better turns the clouds into gigantic ...
... better , for ex- amusement of the day , the terror of the night , ample , in the time of Elizabeth than in the the fertile source of wild superstitions . It time of Egbert ; and they also wrote better turns the clouds into gigantic ...
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... better manner was discernible . But , low as was the state of our poetry during the civil war and the Protectorate , a still deeper fall was at hand . Hitherto our literature had been idiomatic . In mind as in situation , we had been ...
... better manner was discernible . But , low as was the state of our poetry during the civil war and the Protectorate , a still deeper fall was at hand . Hitherto our literature had been idiomatic . In mind as in situation , we had been ...
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