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... whole . What is true of Gray , is palpably false of Young ; what describes the Wartons will by no means apply to Blair . Something of a common ele- ment will , we may hope , appear as we proceed . For the present it is to be observed ...
... whole . What is true of Gray , is palpably false of Young ; what describes the Wartons will by no means apply to Blair . Something of a common ele- ment will , we may hope , appear as we proceed . For the present it is to be observed ...
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... whole substance of a certain sixteen - line octosyllabic " Picture of Melancholy " ( 1806 ) : Fly , O fly , from yonder cell , Where Melancholy loves to dwell . There she sits with moping air , Fix'd in dreadful deep despair , With ...
... whole substance of a certain sixteen - line octosyllabic " Picture of Melancholy " ( 1806 ) : Fly , O fly , from yonder cell , Where Melancholy loves to dwell . There she sits with moping air , Fix'd in dreadful deep despair , With ...
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... whole series of them , by Benedict - who languishes in Melissa's absence , and whose heart is convulsed by " ten- der spasms " when he sees her - who no longer finds joy in spring nor in his " artless rhyme " but craves from his cruel ...
... whole series of them , by Benedict - who languishes in Melissa's absence , and whose heart is convulsed by " ten- der spasms " when he sees her - who no longer finds joy in spring nor in his " artless rhyme " but craves from his cruel ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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