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Page 155
He would shut his eyes as he walked along the streets , and if he happened to bounce his head against a post , or fall into the kennel ( as he seldom missed either to do one or both ) , he would tell the gibing prentices , who looked on ...
He would shut his eyes as he walked along the streets , and if he happened to bounce his head against a post , or fall into the kennel ( as he seldom missed either to do one or both ) , he would tell the gibing prentices , who looked on ...
Page 432
Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic , distant , respectful love , that she ...
Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic , distant , respectful love , that she ...
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At first thin - wavering ; till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide and fast , dimming the day With a continual flow . ... Fast falls a fleecy show'r : the downy flakes , Descending , and with never - ceasing lapse , Softly alighting ...
At first thin - wavering ; till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide and fast , dimming the day With a continual flow . ... Fast falls a fleecy show'r : the downy flakes , Descending , and with never - ceasing lapse , Softly alighting ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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