The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... once placed himself on easy terms with everyone he met . His early raids into Liddesdale , for example , gave him a better insight into the characteristics of the border shepherds and farmers than most strangers could obtain , for the ...
... once placed himself on easy terms with everyone he met . His early raids into Liddesdale , for example , gave him a better insight into the characteristics of the border shepherds and farmers than most strangers could obtain , for the ...
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... once the reactionary politician and the ' dull ' poet , but the reactionary who had once hailed with rapture the ' dawn ' of the revolution , and the dull poet who had once stood on the heights of poetry . And the two indictments , for ...
... once the reactionary politician and the ' dull ' poet , but the reactionary who had once hailed with rapture the ' dawn ' of the revolution , and the dull poet who had once stood on the heights of poetry . And the two indictments , for ...
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... once flaming and triumphant patriotism of the time ( 1817 ) but all competent judgment since has accepted it as one of the very best things of the kind is conclusive . It has been parodied not merely in one famous instance by Barham ...
... once flaming and triumphant patriotism of the time ( 1817 ) but all competent judgment since has accepted it as one of the very best things of the kind is conclusive . It has been parodied not merely in one famous instance by Barham ...
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