The Masters of English LiteratureBooks for Libraries Press, 1972 - 424 pages |
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Stephen Lucius Gwynn. all the more assuredly because it was good - nature as well . Edmund Burke , whose close union ... natures , Burke was committed to a career where only office could give him the oppor- tunity , for which they needed ...
Stephen Lucius Gwynn. all the more assuredly because it was good - nature as well . Edmund Burke , whose close union ... natures , Burke was committed to a career where only office could give him the oppor- tunity , for which they needed ...
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... nature - a preference for the wild over the subdued , for primitive earth rather than earth stamped with the character of man . There is no personality in English literature so hard to judge fairly as Byron's , except Swift's ; and , as ...
... nature - a preference for the wild over the subdued , for primitive earth rather than earth stamped with the character of man . There is no personality in English literature so hard to judge fairly as Byron's , except Swift's ; and , as ...
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... nature's silent sowing - a harvest fairly brought home with this poem , the Lines written near Tintern Abbey , which closes the first issue of Lyrical Ballads . And in them he goes on to describe the mood which succeeded that of mere ...
... nature's silent sowing - a harvest fairly brought home with this poem , the Lines written near Tintern Abbey , which closes the first issue of Lyrical Ballads . And in them he goes on to describe the mood which succeeded that of mere ...
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