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... original peculiarities , thus widened the breach every day between himself and the public . A poet , although he may have no great confidence in the public taste , as a guide to excellence , should always , at least , retain the wish to ...
... original peculiarities , thus widened the breach every day between himself and the public . A poet , although he may have no great confidence in the public taste , as a guide to excellence , should always , at least , retain the wish to ...
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... original - and the most touching of all the produc- tions of its author . From it alone , we are inclined to think an idea of the whole poetical genius of Mr Coleridge might be gathered , such as could scarcely receive any very ...
... original - and the most touching of all the produc- tions of its author . From it alone , we are inclined to think an idea of the whole poetical genius of Mr Coleridge might be gathered , such as could scarcely receive any very ...
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... original system of Scotland . If it be to impart a form from the provinces , it is with the view of perfecting and strengthening that vehicle by which it is a possible thing to impart the cordiality , and the moral discipline , and the ...
... original system of Scotland . If it be to impart a form from the provinces , it is with the view of perfecting and strengthening that vehicle by which it is a possible thing to impart the cordiality , and the moral discipline , and the ...
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... Original and Abridgement are almost reckoned as necessary as man and wife ; so that I am really afraid that a Bookseller and a good conscience will shortly grow some strange thing in the earth . I shall not carry the reflection any ...
... Original and Abridgement are almost reckoned as necessary as man and wife ; so that I am really afraid that a Bookseller and a good conscience will shortly grow some strange thing in the earth . I shall not carry the reflection any ...
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... Original " round the World : " and says , " So great a glory do I esteem it to be the Author of these Works , that I cannot , without great injury to myself and justice , endure that every one should own them , who have no- thing to do ...
... Original " round the World : " and says , " So great a glory do I esteem it to be the Author of these Works , that I cannot , without great injury to myself and justice , endure that every one should own them , who have no- thing to do ...
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Page 187 - Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow, Enough if in our hearts we know There's such a place as Yarrow.
Page 59 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 38 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 181 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 272 - And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias : who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.