The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... epigram in such lines as the other stock quotation The torrent's smoothness ere it dash below . He had a bluff felicity , as in The Song of Hybrias the Cretan , which is not too common at any time ; and , in other songs , such as ...
... epigram in such lines as the other stock quotation The torrent's smoothness ere it dash below . He had a bluff felicity , as in The Song of Hybrias the Cretan , which is not too common at any time ; and , in other songs , such as ...
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... epigram . Orion is worth a very considerable number of farthings , and , provided that its reader goes no farther in its author's work , he will probably think Horne a better poet than any other of the group here immediately associated ...
... epigram . Orion is worth a very considerable number of farthings , and , provided that its reader goes no farther in its author's work , he will probably think Horne a better poet than any other of the group here immediately associated ...
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... part , ephemeral ; his most remarkable feat was an epigram upon the apostasy of Sir James Mackintosh from radicalism , which proved the death - blow of The Albion . " Newspapers Thirty - five years ago contains a record.
... part , ephemeral ; his most remarkable feat was an epigram upon the apostasy of Sir James Mackintosh from radicalism , which proved the death - blow of The Albion . " Newspapers Thirty - five years ago contains a record.
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