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... Hopkins University in Baltimore , in New York , before Yale College , Connec- ticut , and elsewhere . It has been no small advantage to me that among the distinguished listeners to G. b whom I have had the honour of reading these pages.
... Hopkins University in Baltimore , in New York , before Yale College , Connec- ticut , and elsewhere . It has been no small advantage to me that among the distinguished listeners to G. b whom I have had the honour of reading these pages.
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... reading these pages there have been more than a few whose special studies have rendered them particularly acute in criticising the links of my argument . In consequence of such criti- cism , I have been able profitably to revise the ...
... reading these pages there have been more than a few whose special studies have rendered them particularly acute in criticising the links of my argument . In consequence of such criti- cism , I have been able profitably to revise the ...
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... readers to consider the marvel of a nation that was free to use in any com- bination all the endless varieties of iambic and tro- chaic movement ( for the dactylic and anapastic1 1 I purposely take no note here of the experiments in ...
... readers to consider the marvel of a nation that was free to use in any com- bination all the endless varieties of iambic and tro- chaic movement ( for the dactylic and anapastic1 1 I purposely take no note here of the experiments in ...
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... reader may amuse himself by turning to Crashaw , who writes a poem of thirty- one stanzas on the Weeping of the Magdalen , in which he calls her eyes " parents of silver - footed rills , ” “ heavens of ever - falling stars ...
... reader may amuse himself by turning to Crashaw , who writes a poem of thirty- one stanzas on the Weeping of the Magdalen , in which he calls her eyes " parents of silver - footed rills , ” “ heavens of ever - falling stars ...
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... reader : - I strike my silver - sounded lyre , — First struck myself by some strong fire , - And all the while her warning ray ( Reflect from fluid glass ) doth play On the white banks . But all are deaf Unto my Muse , that is most lief ...
... reader : - I strike my silver - sounded lyre , — First struck myself by some strong fire , - And all the while her warning ray ( Reflect from fluid glass ) doth play On the white banks . But all are deaf Unto my Muse , that is most lief ...
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