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... lost sight of , that he was but a boy ; -a boy , and yet a poet of rare power . These results of careful study and research are now submitted to the reader , not without the hope that a like spirit may animate him in the PREFACE . xiii.
... lost sight of , that he was but a boy ; -a boy , and yet a poet of rare power . These results of careful study and research are now submitted to the reader , not without the hope that a like spirit may animate him in the PREFACE . xiii.
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Sir Daniel Wilson. hope that a like spirit may animate him in the perusal of the following appeal for a reconsideration of the verdict on a life , wayward and erring : " Swift as a shadow , short as any dream , Brief as the lightning in ...
Sir Daniel Wilson. hope that a like spirit may animate him in the perusal of the following appeal for a reconsideration of the verdict on a life , wayward and erring : " Swift as a shadow , short as any dream , Brief as the lightning in ...
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... at the same time , domestic in his tastes , and seemingly also frank and companionable , notwithstanding his occasional relapses 1 Mrs. Newton's Letter , Croft , p . 161 . CHAP . I. and high spirit . into reveries , IO CHATTERTON .
... at the same time , domestic in his tastes , and seemingly also frank and companionable , notwithstanding his occasional relapses 1 Mrs. Newton's Letter , Croft , p . 161 . CHAP . I. and high spirit . into reveries , IO CHATTERTON .
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... spirit . His social qualities were indeed altogether remarkable in one so reticent . He was fond of female society even from a child ; had his little favourite , Miss Sukey Webb ; and when , after a whole day's absence , no other ...
... spirit . His social qualities were indeed altogether remarkable in one so reticent . He was fond of female society even from a child ; had his little favourite , Miss Sukey Webb ; and when , after a whole day's absence , no other ...
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... spirit of veneration developed in the boy is thus all the more remarkable in its contrast to every idea and teaching of the age in which he lived . The deed and its chief perpetrators are thus recalled at a later date , in his metrical ...
... spirit of veneration developed in the boy is thus all the more remarkable in its contrast to every idea and teaching of the age in which he lived . The deed and its chief perpetrators are thus recalled at a later date , in his metrical ...
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Page 32 - Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.
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