The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... Fall of Catiline ...... The Golden Age Restored .. 318 318 320 322 324 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER .. 328 Scene from Philaster .... 330 Grief of Aspatia for the Marriage of Amintor and Evadne . Disinterestedness of Biancha ........ 332 333 ...
... Fall of Catiline ...... The Golden Age Restored .. 318 318 320 322 324 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER .. 328 Scene from Philaster .... 330 Grief of Aspatia for the Marriage of Amintor and Evadne . Disinterestedness of Biancha ........ 332 333 ...
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... fall . Remove from the field of ghosts moon , he retired in the midst of the whistling blast . The sons of green Like the darkened With scenes of exquisite painting also Ossian abounds . Such is the scenery with which Temora opens , and ...
... fall . Remove from the field of ghosts moon , he retired in the midst of the whistling blast . The sons of green Like the darkened With scenes of exquisite painting also Ossian abounds . Such is the scenery with which Temora opens , and ...
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... fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art forever the same , rejoicing in the brightness of thy course . When the world is dark with tempests ...
... fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art forever the same , rejoicing in the brightness of thy course . When the world is dark with tempests ...
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... Fall of Man is not unlike that which is given in ' Paradise Lost , ' and the following passage in it might almost be supposed to have been the foundation of a corresponding passage in Milton's sublime Epic . It is that in which Satan is ...
... Fall of Man is not unlike that which is given in ' Paradise Lost , ' and the following passage in it might almost be supposed to have been the foundation of a corresponding passage in Milton's sublime Epic . It is that in which Satan is ...
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... falls in the sec- ond line . A few more names of inferior order , such as Aldhelm , Abbot of Malms- berry , Coilfrid , Abbot of Wearmouth , and Felix of Croyland , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon writers to the celebrated John of ...
... falls in the sec- ond line . A few more names of inferior order , such as Aldhelm , Abbot of Malms- berry , Coilfrid , Abbot of Wearmouth , and Felix of Croyland , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon writers to the celebrated John of ...
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