National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century: With Memoirs, Volume 3Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... Twere worth ten years of peaceful life , One glance at their array ! " But we are forgetting the briefness of our space in the interest of our criticism , for these poems come back to our memory with all the freshness of the youth , of ...
... Twere worth ten years of peaceful life , One glance at their array ! " But we are forgetting the briefness of our space in the interest of our criticism , for these poems come back to our memory with all the freshness of the youth , of ...
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