Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and PeopleHarper, 1862 - 558 էջ |
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... thought of Baltimore ! ' Tis two long years since sank the town beneath that bloody band , And all around its trampled hearths a larger concourse stand , Where , high upon a gallows tree , a yelling wretch is seen , ' Tis Hackett of ...
... thought of Baltimore ! ' Tis two long years since sank the town beneath that bloody band , And all around its trampled hearths a larger concourse stand , Where , high upon a gallows tree , a yelling wretch is seen , ' Tis Hackett of ...
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... thought or for expression , have rarely been excelled by any writer in any language . They are eminently distinguished for the grace , the finish , and the clearness which his verse too often wants . That there is one cry which pervades ...
... thought or for expression , have rarely been excelled by any writer in any language . They are eminently distinguished for the grace , the finish , and the clearness which his verse too often wants . That there is one cry which pervades ...
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... thought in that case I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who , with no greater probabilities or pretenses , have arrived to extraordinary fortune : but I had before written a shrewd proph- ecy against myself ; and I ...
... thought in that case I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who , with no greater probabilities or pretenses , have arrived to extraordinary fortune : but I had before written a shrewd proph- ecy against myself ; and I ...
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... thought it no disparagement to those qualifications of their life , that , in the midst of the most talked - of and talking country in the world , they had lived so long , not only without fame , but almost without being heard of . And ...
... thought it no disparagement to those qualifications of their life , that , in the midst of the most talked - of and talking country in the world , they had lived so long , not only without fame , but almost without being heard of . And ...
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... thought delight the old ; the grace and melody enchant the young ; the unaffected and all - pervading piety satisfy the serious ; and a certain slight touch of mysticism carries the imaginative reader fairly off his feet . For my 62 ...
... thought delight the old ; the grace and melody enchant the young ; the unaffected and all - pervading piety satisfy the serious ; and a certain slight touch of mysticism carries the imaginative reader fairly off his feet . For my 62 ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
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admirable ballads beauty Ben Jonson bird Bonny Dundee Bradshaigh bright brother called charming dear death delight doth Dutch Republic EACUS English EURIPIDES eyes fair father fear flowers Gelert gentlemen Gerald Griffin give Goodere grace green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven honor Joanna Baillie John Banim John Clare kind King Kyng lady laughed letters light live look Lord Mahony maid mignonette Molière morning murder never night noble o'er once Pan is dead passed person pleasure poems poet poetry poor praise round SACK OF BALTIMORE scene seemed sing Sir John smile Soggarth aroon song story sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought took trees truth Twas Ufton Court verse wild Winthrop Mackworth Praed wirra-sthru wonder words write wyfe XANTHIAS young youth