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Page 467
... happy inspiration into one of the most beautiful in the poem . Many of the revisions in Keats's other poems are equally happy . which exposed him to the ridicule of the critics . EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY POETS 467.
... happy inspiration into one of the most beautiful in the poem . Many of the revisions in Keats's other poems are equally happy . which exposed him to the ridicule of the critics . EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY POETS 467.
Page 559
... happy , that the world owes us happiness or pleasure : " What is this that ever since earliest years , thou hast been fretting and fuming , and lamenting and self - tormenting , on account of ? Say it in a word : is it not because thou ...
... happy , that the world owes us happiness or pleasure : " What is this that ever since earliest years , thou hast been fretting and fuming , and lamenting and self - tormenting , on account of ? Say it in a word : is it not because thou ...
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... happy life of the workman . " The workers , Ruskin insisted in these later books , could be happy only if they lived as people had lived in the Middle Ages , making everything that they needed with their own hands , taking pride in ...
... happy life of the workman . " The workers , Ruskin insisted in these later books , could be happy only if they lived as people had lived in the Middle Ages , making everything that they needed with their own hands , taking pride in ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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