William CowperJohn Lehmann, 1951 - 167 pages |
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Page 75
... living bird , dipped in the blood of the slain bird , flew off into the air . Thunderous names broke against the rock , cities grew on the bare limestone hills like bracken fungi on the trunk of a tree ; armies moved their tents about ...
... living bird , dipped in the blood of the slain bird , flew off into the air . Thunderous names broke against the rock , cities grew on the bare limestone hills like bracken fungi on the trunk of a tree ; armies moved their tents about ...
Page 86
... living , then Cowper — with circumstances set dead against him much of the time — was one of the most civilised men of his age . Yet he could never have obtained this comparative equilibrium without Mrs. Unwin . She alone saved him ...
... living , then Cowper — with circumstances set dead against him much of the time — was one of the most civilised men of his age . Yet he could never have obtained this comparative equilibrium without Mrs. Unwin . She alone saved him ...
Page 102
... living as easily as blackberries . If his picture of the gipsies has a certain tartness , it is yet not far from the truth : I see a column of slow rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild . A vagabond and useless tribe ...
... living as easily as blackberries . If his picture of the gipsies has a certain tartness , it is yet not far from the truth : I see a column of slow rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild . A vagabond and useless tribe ...
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