Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... BRISTOL . CHAPTER I. - WILKES AND LIBERTY . WAS there ever a time that did not think highly of its own importance ? Was there ever a time when the world did not believe itself to be going to pieces , and when alarming pam- phlets on ...
... BRISTOL . CHAPTER I. - WILKES AND LIBERTY . WAS there ever a time that did not think highly of its own importance ? Was there ever a time when the world did not believe itself to be going to pieces , and when alarming pam- phlets on ...
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... Bristol . The following appeared in the Public Advertiser , as from a Bristol correspondent , on the very day of Wilkes's release . " Bristol , April 14th . - We hear that on Wednesday next , being the day of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement ...
... Bristol . The following appeared in the Public Advertiser , as from a Bristol correspondent , on the very day of Wilkes's release . " Bristol , April 14th . - We hear that on Wednesday next , being the day of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement ...
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... Bristol . And the dinner to be on the table exactly 45 minutes after two o'clock . " Whether this precise dinner , thus announced by the Bristol correspondent of the Advertiser , was held or not , must , we fear , remain a mystery ; but ...
... Bristol . And the dinner to be on the table exactly 45 minutes after two o'clock . " Whether this precise dinner , thus announced by the Bristol correspondent of the Advertiser , was held or not , must , we fear , remain a mystery ; but ...
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... Bristol Journal , a weekly news- paper in high local repute . It accordingly appeared in the columns of that newspaper on the 8th of January , 1763 . From that day Chatterton was a sworn poet . Piece after piece was dropped by him ...
... Bristol Journal , a weekly news- paper in high local repute . It accordingly appeared in the columns of that newspaper on the 8th of January , 1763 . From that day Chatterton was a sworn poet . Piece after piece was dropped by him ...
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... Bristol ; he had been educated in Oxford , and was " one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived . " He wrote several books , and translated some part of the Iliad , under the title of " Romance of Troy . " To give Mr ...
... Bristol ; he had been educated in Oxford , and was " one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived . " He wrote several books , and translated some part of the Iliad , under the title of " Romance of Troy . " To give Mr ...
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
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Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
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Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...