The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... letters , after The Prelude the most precious document we possess of the growth of a poet's mind , are especially illuminating for the year 1818 . ' To enjoy the things that others understand ' might have satisfied his aspiration in ...
... letters , after The Prelude the most precious document we possess of the growth of a poet's mind , are especially illuminating for the year 1818 . ' To enjoy the things that others understand ' might have satisfied his aspiration in ...
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... letters to Coleridge which has been preserved . This sonnet was written in a lunatic asylum at Hoxton , where Lamb ... Letters ; and he improved his acquaintance with the scholarly and unpractical George Dyer , twenty years his elder ...
... letters to Coleridge which has been preserved . This sonnet was written in a lunatic asylum at Hoxton , where Lamb ... Letters ; and he improved his acquaintance with the scholarly and unpractical George Dyer , twenty years his elder ...
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... Letters to Travis in 1788-9 . Archdeacon Travis , in his Letters to Gibbon , had maintained the genuineness of the text as to the ' three that bear record in heaven ' ( 1 St John v 7 ) . Porson gave ample proof of its spuriousness ...
... Letters to Travis in 1788-9 . Archdeacon Travis , in his Letters to Gibbon , had maintained the genuineness of the text as to the ' three that bear record in heaven ' ( 1 St John v 7 ) . Porson gave ample proof of its spuriousness ...
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