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... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has He received a learned education . ever triumphed over greater ...
... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has He received a learned education . ever triumphed over greater ...
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... spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sauctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds ...
... spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sauctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds ...
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... spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds ...
... spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds ...
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... spirit redeeming every thing . The unsuspect- ing confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which he shrinks from the thought of shame , the tempest of passion with which he commits his crimes , and the haughty ...
... spirit redeeming every thing . The unsuspect- ing confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which he shrinks from the thought of shame , the tempest of passion with which he commits his crimes , and the haughty ...
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... spirit of those intrepid and haughty pa- tricians , who forgot the dearest ties of nature in the claims of public duty , who looked with disdain on the elephants and on the gold of Pyrrhus , and listened with unaltered compo- sure to ...
... spirit of those intrepid and haughty pa- tricians , who forgot the dearest ties of nature in the claims of public duty , who looked with disdain on the elephants and on the gold of Pyrrhus , and listened with unaltered compo- sure to ...
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