American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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... poet : " O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint Agricolas- " Let them recollect that Washington was a husbandman , and returned to his farm after he had worked out the salvation of his country ; that it is an honourable and virtuous ...
... poet : " O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint Agricolas- " Let them recollect that Washington was a husbandman , and returned to his farm after he had worked out the salvation of his country ; that it is an honourable and virtuous ...
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... poet and the painter cannot bring down their arts to the level of the poor , are there none to be God's interpreters to them - to teach them to read the great book of nature ? " The labouring classes ought not to lose the pleasures that ...
... poet and the painter cannot bring down their arts to the level of the poor , are there none to be God's interpreters to them - to teach them to read the great book of nature ? " The labouring classes ought not to lose the pleasures that ...
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... poet , though he could not , or dared not , express it- ' Worth makes the man - the want of it , the fellow . ' " Well , well , ' added Mrs. Finley , ' show him in , and tell Mr. Finley . ' " Aikin entered with that air of blended ...
... poet , though he could not , or dared not , express it- ' Worth makes the man - the want of it , the fellow . ' " Well , well , ' added Mrs. Finley , ' show him in , and tell Mr. Finley . ' " Aikin entered with that air of blended ...
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... poets lead me to the French poets ; Lord Byron brings to my recollection my exile in England , my walks to Harrow hill , and my travels to Venice and so of the rest . The book is com- posed of miscellanies which have all tones , because ...
... poets lead me to the French poets ; Lord Byron brings to my recollection my exile in England , my walks to Harrow hill , and my travels to Venice and so of the rest . The book is com- posed of miscellanies which have all tones , because ...
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... poet : - " When we study the literature of different countries , a great number of allusions and traits escape us , if we do not bear in mind the manners and customs of the respective nations . A view of literature , apart from the ...
... poet : - " When we study the literature of different countries , a great number of allusions and traits escape us , if we do not bear in mind the manners and customs of the respective nations . A view of literature , apart from the ...
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