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... Charles River broad and opaline , Till wanes September's honeysuckle moon Too soon ; And then - away he goes , A flash of ruby on the southward air , And comes no more , though still the straits are fair , Where misty Cambridge from the ...
... Charles River broad and opaline , Till wanes September's honeysuckle moon Too soon ; And then - away he goes , A flash of ruby on the southward air , And comes no more , though still the straits are fair , Where misty Cambridge from the ...
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... Charles I. , was averse to the writing of poems ; he would stroll up to young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy copy of verses on her ladyship's eyebrow . They were good , vastly good ! See to it that ...
... Charles I. , was averse to the writing of poems ; he would stroll up to young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy copy of verses on her ladyship's eyebrow . They were good , vastly good ! See to it that ...
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... Charles I. are not excessively unequal in merit , and constantly ready to sink into unpardonable bathos or swell into equally unpardonable bombast . And this inequality goes so far , and pervades the literature of the period so ...
... Charles I. are not excessively unequal in merit , and constantly ready to sink into unpardonable bathos or swell into equally unpardonable bombast . And this inequality goes so far , and pervades the literature of the period so ...
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... Charles I. almost everybody essayed to be a tragic dramatist . The playwrights of the great generation had pitched their note high ; no one can deny that Shakespeare himself is often only saved from the charge of extravagance by the ...
... Charles I. almost everybody essayed to be a tragic dramatist . The playwrights of the great generation had pitched their note high ; no one can deny that Shakespeare himself is often only saved from the charge of extravagance by the ...
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... Charles Lamb are sudden felicities , such as I have just said can be discovered , though , I allow , in fewer numbers and in less sustained brilliance , in a vast number of examples . But the general tenour of his writings is so ...
... Charles Lamb are sudden felicities , such as I have just said can be discovered , though , I allow , in fewer numbers and in less sustained brilliance , in a vast number of examples . But the general tenour of his writings is so ...
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