The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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With a Memoir of Each William Collins. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COLLINS . LIFE OF COLLINS . WILLIAM COLLINS was born at Chichester.
With a Memoir of Each William Collins. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COLLINS . LIFE OF COLLINS . WILLIAM COLLINS was born at Chichester.
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With a Memoir of Each William Collins. LIFE OF COLLINS . WILLIAM COLLINS was born at Chichester , on the 25th of December , about 1720. His father was a hatter , of good reputation . He was , in 1733 , as Dr. Warton has kindly informed ...
With a Memoir of Each William Collins. LIFE OF COLLINS . WILLIAM COLLINS was born at Chichester , on the 25th of December , about 1720. His father was a hatter , of good reputation . He was , in 1733 , as Dr. Warton has kindly informed ...
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... born for happiness : Collins , who , while he studied to live , felt no evil but poverty , no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities , disease and insanity . Having formerly written his character ...
... born for happiness : Collins , who , while he studied to live , felt no evil but poverty , no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities , disease and insanity . Having formerly written his character ...
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... out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The dangerous passions kept aloof , Far from the sainted ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . 25.
... out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The dangerous passions kept aloof , Far from the sainted ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . 25.
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... born forms , and best adored : Who oft , with songs , divine to hear , Winn'st from his fatal grasp the spear , And hidest in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword ! Thou who , amidst the deathful field , By godlike chiefs alone beheld ...
... born forms , and best adored : Who oft , with songs , divine to hear , Winn'st from his fatal grasp the spear , And hidest in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword ! Thou who , amidst the deathful field , By godlike chiefs alone beheld ...
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