The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... Vision , " or that some- what humbler but yet high strain , in which , bethinking him of the undefined aspirations of his boyhood , he said to himself— " Even then a wish , I mind its power 4 ESSAYS : CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE .
... Vision , " or that some- what humbler but yet high strain , in which , bethinking him of the undefined aspirations of his boyhood , he said to himself— " Even then a wish , I mind its power 4 ESSAYS : CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE .
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John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. " Even then a wish , I mind its power , A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast , That I , for puir auld Scotland's sake , Some usefu ' plan or book could make , Or sing a sang at ...
John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. " Even then a wish , I mind its power , A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast , That I , for puir auld Scotland's sake , Some usefu ' plan or book could make , Or sing a sang at ...
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... mind when he was conceiving the boyhood of the Pedlar in his great poem The Excursion . " But eagerly he read and read again , Whate'er the minister's old shelf supplied ; The life and death of martyrs , who sustained , With will ...
... mind when he was conceiving the boyhood of the Pedlar in his great poem The Excursion . " But eagerly he read and read again , Whate'er the minister's old shelf supplied ; The life and death of martyrs , who sustained , With will ...
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... mind men who have outgrown the whims and follies of their ill - educated youth , and become instructors in all manner of wisdom . In practice extinct to elderly people it survives in poetry ; and there the body of the harmless ...
... mind men who have outgrown the whims and follies of their ill - educated youth , and become instructors in all manner of wisdom . In practice extinct to elderly people it survives in poetry ; and there the body of the harmless ...
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... mind , if any such should honour the author with a perusal , to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened of our own . " But how have we been able to refrain from saying a few words about the " Cottar's Saturday Night " ? How ...
... mind , if any such should honour the author with a perusal , to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened of our own . " But how have we been able to refrain from saying a few words about the " Cottar's Saturday Night " ? How ...
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