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The object of this volume is to give such a selection from our eminent writers , as
may best exhibit their styles of thought and language . All their beauties it would
be impossible to give . But the following pages contain many of those passages ...
The object of this volume is to give such a selection from our eminent writers , as
may best exhibit their styles of thought and language . All their beauties it would
be impossible to give . But the following pages contain many of those passages ...
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What frantic fit , ” quoth he , “ hath thus distraught Thee , foolish man , so rash a
doom to give ? What justice ever other judgment taught , But he should die who
merits not to live ? None else to death this man despairing drove , But his own ...
What frantic fit , ” quoth he , “ hath thus distraught Thee , foolish man , so rash a
doom to give ? What justice ever other judgment taught , But he should die who
merits not to live ? None else to death this man despairing drove , But his own ...
Page 203
... but ' tis the praise of thine , That whom it teaches it makes prompt to learn , And
with the boon gives talents for its use . ... lure down to death The uninformed and
heedless souls of men , We give to chance , blind chance , ourselves as blind ...
... but ' tis the praise of thine , That whom it teaches it makes prompt to learn , And
with the boon gives talents for its use . ... lure down to death The uninformed and
heedless souls of men , We give to chance , blind chance , ourselves as blind ...
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| Title | The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations... |
| Author | George Croly |
| Compiled by | George Croly |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1849 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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