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... forlorn of meaning , and around him he beheld the living traces and the sky -
pointing proportions of the mighty Pan - but poetry redeemed him from this
spectral philosophy , and he bathed his heart in beauty , and gazed at the golden
light of ...
... forlorn of meaning , and around him he beheld the living traces and the sky -
pointing proportions of the mighty Pan - but poetry redeemed him from this
spectral philosophy , and he bathed his heart in beauty , and gazed at the golden
light of ...
Сторінка 109
... preference he gave to the former . The mentioning this will please the living ; it
cannot hurt the dead . He argued on the same occasion and in the same SOL
breath , that Addison ' s style was without THE LATE MR . HORNE TOOKE . 109.
... preference he gave to the former . The mentioning this will please the living ; it
cannot hurt the dead . He argued on the same occasion and in the same SOL
breath , that Addison ' s style was without THE LATE MR . HORNE TOOKE . 109.
Сторінка 125
After enumerating sixteen different definitions ( all of which he dismisses with
scorn and contumely ) at the end of two quarto volumes , he refers the reader for
the true solution to a third volume , which he did not live to finish . This
extraordinary ...
After enumerating sixteen different definitions ( all of which he dismisses with
scorn and contumely ) at the end of two quarto volumes , he refers the reader for
the true solution to a third volume , which he did not live to finish . This
extraordinary ...
Сторінка 137
It is plain , ” said the unconscious author to his fellow - labourer , “ that you and I
need never think of getting our living by writing poetry ! ” In a year or so after this ,
he set to work , and poured out quarto upon quarto , as if they had been drops of
...
It is plain , ” said the unconscious author to his fellow - labourer , “ that you and I
need never think of getting our living by writing poetry ! ” In a year or so after this ,
he set to work , and poured out quarto upon quarto , as if they had been drops of
...
Сторінка 140
Calton - Hill , the inhabitants of “ Auld Reekie " can descry , or fancy they descry
the peaks of Ben Lomond and the waving outline of Rob Roy ' s country : we who
live at the southern extremity of the island can only catch a glimpse of the billowy
...
Calton - Hill , the inhabitants of “ Auld Reekie " can descry , or fancy they descry
the peaks of Ben Lomond and the waving outline of Rob Roy ' s country : we who
live at the southern extremity of the island can only catch a glimpse of the billowy
...
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