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... perhaps familiar , and whose poetry is associated with the charm of personal intercourse . And even when this link is wanting , the rigid estimate of the critic can scarcely be given to works which , as it were , belong to ourselves and ...
... perhaps familiar , and whose poetry is associated with the charm of personal intercourse . And even when this link is wanting , the rigid estimate of the critic can scarcely be given to works which , as it were , belong to ourselves and ...
Page ix
... perhaps , but scarcely less precious , is Archbishop Trench's Household Book of English Poetry . The patient labour expended on these anthologies will be as evident to any one who has toiled in the same field , as the fine taste and ...
... perhaps , but scarcely less precious , is Archbishop Trench's Household Book of English Poetry . The patient labour expended on these anthologies will be as evident to any one who has toiled in the same field , as the fine taste and ...
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... perhaps , which grows Near thereabouts , into your posy wring ; You that do dictionaries ' method bring Into your rhymes , running in rattling rows ; You that poor Petrarch's long deceased woes With new - born sighs and wit disguised ...
... perhaps , which grows Near thereabouts , into your posy wring ; You that do dictionaries ' method bring Into your rhymes , running in rattling rows ; You that poor Petrarch's long deceased woes With new - born sighs and wit disguised ...
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... perhaps compounded am with clay , Do not so much as my poor name rehearse , But let your love even with my life decay ; Lest the wise world should look into your moan , And mock you with me after I am gone . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564 ...
... perhaps compounded am with clay , Do not so much as my poor name rehearse , But let your love even with my life decay ; Lest the wise world should look into your moan , And mock you with me after I am gone . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564 ...
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... Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be ...
... Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be ...
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