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these circumstances that the poem presents in some degree the appearance of an unfinished picture . ... could be claimed on the score of youth -- a seening generosity often conferred on the first essays of poets , painters , and orators ...
these circumstances that the poem presents in some degree the appearance of an unfinished picture . ... could be claimed on the score of youth -- a seening generosity often conferred on the first essays of poets , painters , and orators ...
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Each reader is apt to form an idea of the subject , the narrative , and the stile of execution ; so that the real poem is tried and censured not upon its own merits , but for differing from the preconceived dream of the critic's ...
Each reader is apt to form an idea of the subject , the narrative , and the stile of execution ; so that the real poem is tried and censured not upon its own merits , but for differing from the preconceived dream of the critic's ...
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My poetical spirit ( says Mr. Stockdale ) ' excited me to write my poem of “ The Invincible Island . ” I never found myself in a happier disposition to compose , nor ever wrote with more pleasure . " I presumed warmly to hope ...
My poetical spirit ( says Mr. Stockdale ) ' excited me to write my poem of “ The Invincible Island . ” I never found myself in a happier disposition to compose , nor ever wrote with more pleasure . " I presumed warmly to hope ...
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Quarterly review Volume 1 of The Quarterly Review |
| Contributor | Aborigines' Friends' Association (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Publisher | Aborigines' Friends' Association, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Jan 2008 |
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