The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... appear , And bleed for ever under Britain's spear . Let softer strains ill - fated Henry mourn , And palms eternal flourish round his urn . Here o'er the martyr - king the marble weeps , And , fast beside him , once - fear'd Edward ...
... appear , And bleed for ever under Britain's spear . Let softer strains ill - fated Henry mourn , And palms eternal flourish round his urn . Here o'er the martyr - king the marble weeps , And , fast beside him , once - fear'd Edward ...
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... appears , or can be expected to appear , in cultivated life . If we have successfully investigated the causes why original poetic genius is most remarkably dis- played in the uncultivated state of society , we shall probably discover ...
... appears , or can be expected to appear , in cultivated life . If we have successfully investigated the causes why original poetic genius is most remarkably dis- played in the uncultivated state of society , we shall probably discover ...
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... appear irreconcilable to logic . Wherever one turns , the story is the same . There seems hardly a trend of Burke's thinking for which there is no countertrend almost equally essential , locked up in the mystery of his quality and not ...
... appear irreconcilable to logic . Wherever one turns , the story is the same . There seems hardly a trend of Burke's thinking for which there is no countertrend almost equally essential , locked up in the mystery of his quality and not ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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