Letters of Charles Lamb: With Some Account of the Writer, His Friends and Correspondents, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1886 |
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... Poems , in two volumes , including the " Lyri- cal Ballads , " 1815. ] 2 The poem on the four great yew trees of Borrowdale , which the poet has , by the most potent magic of the imagination , converted into a company which you have ...
... Poems , in two volumes , including the " Lyri- cal Ballads , " 1815. ] 2 The poem on the four great yew trees of Borrowdale , which the poet has , by the most potent magic of the imagination , converted into a company which you have ...
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... poem ; I mean original with reference to your own manner . You have nothing like it . I should have seen it in a strange place , and greatly admired it , but not suspected its deri- vation . me . 1 6 " Let me in this place , for I have ...
... poem ; I mean original with reference to your own manner . You have nothing like it . I should have seen it in a strange place , and greatly admired it , but not suspected its deri- vation . me . 1 6 " Let me in this place , for I have ...
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... poems are so much of a piece , they might have been written in the same week ; these decidedly speak of an earlier period . They tell more of what you had been reading . We were glad to see the poems by a female friend . ' ' The one on ...
... poems are so much of a piece , they might have been written in the same week ; these decidedly speak of an earlier period . They tell more of what you had been reading . We were glad to see the poems by a female friend . ' ' The one on ...
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... poem , on the whole , seems condemned to leave behind it a melancholy of imperfect satisfaction , as if you had wronged the feeling with which , in what preceded it , you had re- solved never to visit it , and as if the Muse had deter ...
... poem , on the whole , seems condemned to leave behind it a melancholy of imperfect satisfaction , as if you had wronged the feeling with which , in what preceded it , you had re- solved never to visit it , and as if the Muse had deter ...
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... poem , careless tone , I said to Mary , as if putting a riddle , What is good for a bootless bene ? ' To which with infinite pre- sence of mind ( as the jest - book has it ) she answered , ' a 6 in a The admirable little poem , entitled ...
... poem , careless tone , I said to Mary , as if putting a riddle , What is good for a bootless bene ? ' To which with infinite pre- sence of mind ( as the jest - book has it ) she answered , ' a 6 in a The admirable little poem , entitled ...
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