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... phrase " the dark - brown years , " which occurs repeatedly , " and seems , in spite of its essential meaninglessness , to carry some- thing of the autumnal mood of regret that hangs over the poems . The other , usually applied to some ...
... phrase " the dark - brown years , " which occurs repeatedly , " and seems , in spite of its essential meaninglessness , to carry some- thing of the autumnal mood of regret that hangs over the poems . The other , usually applied to some ...
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... Phrase from " Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham Downs Camp " ( 1795 ) , Hamilton , op . cit . , p . 20. The other camp elegy is " The Camp . A Parody of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard " ( 1814 ) , by Sir Wm . Young , " sometime ...
... Phrase from " Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham Downs Camp " ( 1795 ) , Hamilton , op . cit . , p . 20. The other camp elegy is " The Camp . A Parody of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard " ( 1814 ) , by Sir Wm . Young , " sometime ...
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... phrase is from John Wilson's monody on Grahame ( The Isle of Palms and Other Poems , p . 320 ) , from which the lines at the head of this chapter are also quoted . 172. Chiswick British Poets , LXV , 113-37 . 173. George Wallace ...
... phrase is from John Wilson's monody on Grahame ( The Isle of Palms and Other Poems , p . 320 ) , from which the lines at the head of this chapter are also quoted . 172. Chiswick British Poets , LXV , 113-37 . 173. George Wallace ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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