The North British Review, Volume 42W. P. Kennedy, 1865 - English literature |
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... never have wrote such a thing at all . In this general uproar , amidst this strife of tongues , it is im- possible that a dispassionate man should be heard . " 2 The works of some of his assailants are highly amusing . He laid himself ...
... never have wrote such a thing at all . In this general uproar , amidst this strife of tongues , it is im- possible that a dispassionate man should be heard . " 2 The works of some of his assailants are highly amusing . He laid himself ...
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... never looked on any object with the true eye of a poet . . . . He had no eye for wild and unsophisticated nature . There is no evidence that he ever looked with rapture on the castled cliffs and aërial towers of his native city ; or ...
... never looked on any object with the true eye of a poet . . . . He had no eye for wild and unsophisticated nature . There is no evidence that he ever looked with rapture on the castled cliffs and aërial towers of his native city ; or ...
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... never more see Duncan again . * Farewell Stratherne , most comely for to know , Plenished with pleasant policy preclair , Of towers and towns standing fair in row . Farewell Menteith , where oft I did repair , And came unsought aye , as ...
... never more see Duncan again . * Farewell Stratherne , most comely for to know , Plenished with pleasant policy preclair , Of towers and towns standing fair in row . Farewell Menteith , where oft I did repair , And came unsought aye , as ...
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... never heard such strains , Eternal fame thou to thy country brings ; And now our Caledon Is by thy songs made a new Helicon . Her mountains , woods , and springs , While mountains , woods , springs be , shall sound thy praise , And ...
... never heard such strains , Eternal fame thou to thy country brings ; And now our Caledon Is by thy songs made a new Helicon . Her mountains , woods , and springs , While mountains , woods , springs be , shall sound thy praise , And ...
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... never been disputed . " This playful allusion to the double relation of the name SIMON had a twofold effect on Owen's fate . It gained him a place in the Pope's Index Expurgatorius , and it lost him one in the will of a rich Catholic ...
... never been disputed . " This playful allusion to the double relation of the name SIMON had a twofold effect on Owen's fate . It gained him a place in the Pope's Index Expurgatorius , and it lost him one in the will of a rich Catholic ...
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