Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... common people of the skies , What are you when the moon shall rise ? Who does not know the songs of George Wither ? The chorus of one of them has passed into the select family of familiar quotations : - Shall I , wasting in despair ...
... common people of the skies , What are you when the moon shall rise ? Who does not know the songs of George Wither ? The chorus of one of them has passed into the select family of familiar quotations : - Shall I , wasting in despair ...
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... common things , though very curious . I have often been amused by them myself . " " Curious ? they're the most extraordi- nary things I ever saw in the whole course of my life ! And you say they are common . Could one get them for one ...
... common things , though very curious . I have often been amused by them myself . " " Curious ? they're the most extraordi- nary things I ever saw in the whole course of my life ! And you say they are common . Could one get them for one ...
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... common life , and to relate or describe poems was to choose incidents and situations diction were discoverable in them ; as , for them , throughout , as far as was possible in a instance , in Pope's " Messiah , " in some selection of ...
... common life , and to relate or describe poems was to choose incidents and situations diction were discoverable in them ; as , for them , throughout , as far as was possible in a instance , in Pope's " Messiah , " in some selection of ...
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... common consent , for , in sober reality , writing good verses seems to depend upon something sepa- rate from the volition of the author . I some- times think my fingers set up for themselves , independent of my head ; for twenty times I ...
... common consent , for , in sober reality , writing good verses seems to depend upon something sepa- rate from the volition of the author . I some- times think my fingers set up for themselves , independent of my head ; for twenty times I ...
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... common usage , and indeed to the common sense , of society than even the style of Darwin , which Wordsworth so cordially detested . WILLIAM JOHN Courthope . From The Sunday Magazine . AT ANY COST . BY EDWARD GARRETT . Wordsworth's great ...
... common usage , and indeed to the common sense , of society than even the style of Darwin , which Wordsworth so cordially detested . WILLIAM JOHN Courthope . From The Sunday Magazine . AT ANY COST . BY EDWARD GARRETT . Wordsworth's great ...
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