Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
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... nature , with what ex- quisite taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; · All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ...
... nature , with what ex- quisite taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; · All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ...
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... nature and himself Is thoughtless , thankless , inconsistent man ! Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We censure Nature for a span too short ; That span too short we tax as tedious too ; Torture invention , all expedients ...
... nature and himself Is thoughtless , thankless , inconsistent man ! Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We censure Nature for a span too short ; That span too short we tax as tedious too ; Torture invention , all expedients ...
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... nature seems to be synony mous with a love of Thomson . It is difficult to con- ceive a person of education in this country , imbued James Thomson . the Cheviots . Here the young poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came ...
... nature seems to be synony mous with a love of Thomson . It is difficult to con- ceive a person of education in this country , imbued James Thomson . the Cheviots . Here the young poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came ...
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... nature became , he said , more and more his passion every day . I have enlarged my rural domain , ' he writes to a friend : ' the two fields next to me , from the first of which I have walled - no , no - paled in , about as much as my ...
... nature became , he said , more and more his passion every day . I have enlarged my rural domain , ' he writes to a friend : ' the two fields next to me , from the first of which I have walled - no , no - paled in , about as much as my ...
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... nature which , indolent as he was , he had surveyed under every aspect , till he had become familiar with all . Among the mountains , vales , and forests , he seems to realise his own words- Man superior walks Amid the glad creation ...
... nature which , indolent as he was , he had surveyed under every aspect , till he had become familiar with all . Among the mountains , vales , and forests , he seems to realise his own words- Man superior walks Amid the glad creation ...
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