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Pagina xii
... formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its utter want of poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my ...
... formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its utter want of poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my ...
Pagina xiii
... formed with that conscientiousness which was a characteristic of his work , grew more and more irksome to him as years went on . It may be of interest to some of Birkbeck Hill's friends who are aware of his denunciation of the tyranny ...
... formed with that conscientiousness which was a characteristic of his work , grew more and more irksome to him as years went on . It may be of interest to some of Birkbeck Hill's friends who are aware of his denunciation of the tyranny ...
Pagina xxi
... formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters written by Swift to ...
... formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters written by Swift to ...
Pagina 14
... formed a whole week with a full audience . Note , This play was not a little injurious to the Cavalier indigent officers ; especially the characters of Cutter and Worms . ' Downes's Roscius Anglicanus , ed . 1789 , p . 35 . 5 ' In a ...
... formed a whole week with a full audience . Note , This play was not a little injurious to the Cavalier indigent officers ; especially the characters of Cutter and Worms . ' Downes's Roscius Anglicanus , ed . 1789 , p . 35 . 5 ' In a ...
Pagina 33
... forming descriptions they looked out not for images , but 98 for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets . have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at ...
... forming descriptions they looked out not for images , but 98 for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets . have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at ...
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