The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... thought unfair , we can guess from isolated touches in poems like Lochiel and Lord Ullin's Daughter what a contemporary , a companion in Byron's group and , as we may say , a ' schoolfellow ' like Campbell could have made of it . This ...
... thought unfair , we can guess from isolated touches in poems like Lochiel and Lord Ullin's Daughter what a contemporary , a companion in Byron's group and , as we may say , a ' schoolfellow ' like Campbell could have made of it . This ...
Page 170
... thought of writers long since dead . It was inevitable that the personal esti- mate should play a part here ; but it is remarkable how a full century accepts his verdict . To be sure , there are bits of ill- temper and personal ...
... thought of writers long since dead . It was inevitable that the personal esti- mate should play a part here ; but it is remarkable how a full century accepts his verdict . To be sure , there are bits of ill- temper and personal ...
Page 268
... thought of the speaker's mind . The thought is as limpid as the language . There had been nothing like them in the English pulpit : the nearest approach was bishop Wilson , yet in him still lingered the savour of the old divines who ...
... thought of the speaker's mind . The thought is as limpid as the language . There had been nothing like them in the English pulpit : the nearest approach was bishop Wilson , yet in him still lingered the savour of the old divines who ...
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