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... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of winds the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But aeftiness above all is necessary to ...
... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of winds the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But aeftiness above all is necessary to ...
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... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But carefulness above all is necessary to a ...
... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But carefulness above all is necessary to a ...
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... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But carefulness above all is necessary to a ...
... writer , and to produce his poetry at once in its perfect form - like the palaces which spring out of the desert in com- plete splendour at a single rubbing of the lamp in the Arabian Tale . But carefulness above all is necessary to a ...
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... writers , have the one common object of promoting the worth and comfort of our species . It must be confessed , at the same time , that much of this benevolence , and more particularly , when it aims at some fulfilment , by a ...
... writers , have the one common object of promoting the worth and comfort of our species . It must be confessed , at the same time , that much of this benevolence , and more particularly , when it aims at some fulfilment , by a ...
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... writer , if it may be permitted to do so at this distance of time , on a suggestion with which he closes his observations . " The phraseology , " he says , " which these writers , " ( the Quarterly Reviewers whose strictures gave ...
... writer , if it may be permitted to do so at this distance of time , on a suggestion with which he closes his observations . " The phraseology , " he says , " which these writers , " ( the Quarterly Reviewers whose strictures gave ...
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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.