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The following testimony to its great merit is not , perhaps , generally known , and
will not here be inappropriately introduced . General Wolfe received a copy on
the eve of the assault on Quebec ; he was so struck with its beauty , that he is
said ...
The following testimony to its great merit is not , perhaps , generally known , and
will not here be inappropriately introduced . General Wolfe received a copy on
the eve of the assault on Quebec ; he was so struck with its beauty , that he is
said ...
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Perhaps few of the admirers of this elegant poem in its native tongue are aware
of the homage paid to its eminent merits , by the attempts to render its beauties
accessible to foreign readers : a list of these would occupy a considerable space
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Perhaps few of the admirers of this elegant poem in its native tongue are aware
of the homage paid to its eminent merits , by the attempts to render its beauties
accessible to foreign readers : a list of these would occupy a considerable space
...
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... conclude this slight notice of this poem without a feeling of exultation at the
tribute paid by foreigners to the transcendant merits of a composition , which the
highest critical authority in our own country has declared it would be idle to praise
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... conclude this slight notice of this poem without a feeling of exultation at the
tribute paid by foreigners to the transcendant merits of a composition , which the
highest critical authority in our own country has declared it would be idle to praise
.
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MUS MERK 11 / [ THEMES XXXII . No further seek his merits to disclose , Or draw
his frailties from their dread abode : ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , )
The bosom of his Father and his God . کے On dreary Arvon's shore they lie ...
MUS MERK 11 / [ THEMES XXXII . No further seek his merits to disclose , Or draw
his frailties from their dread abode : ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , )
The bosom of his Father and his God . کے On dreary Arvon's shore they lie ...
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This book ought to be largely circulated , not only on account of its scientific
merits , --though these , as we have in part shown , are great and signal , —but
because it is popularly written throughout , and therefore likely to excite general ...
This book ought to be largely circulated , not only on account of its scientific
merits , --though these , as we have in part shown , are great and signal , —but
because it is popularly written throughout , and therefore likely to excite general ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | John Van Voorst, 1839 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2004 |
| Length | 64 pages |
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