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The following testimony to its great merit is not , perhaps , generally known , and will not here be inappropriately introduced . General Wolfe received a copy on the eve of the assault on Quebec ; he was so struck with its beauty ...
The following testimony to its great merit is not , perhaps , generally known , and will not here be inappropriately introduced . General Wolfe received a copy on the eve of the assault on Quebec ; he was so struck with its beauty ...
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Perhaps few of the admirers of this elegant poem in its native tongue are aware of the homage paid to its eminent merits , by the attempts to render its beauties accessible to foreign readers : a list of these would occupy a ...
Perhaps few of the admirers of this elegant poem in its native tongue are aware of the homage paid to its eminent merits , by the attempts to render its beauties accessible to foreign readers : a list of these would occupy a ...
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It is impossible to conclude this slight notice of this poem without a feeling of exultation at the tribute paid by foreigners to the transcendant merits of a composition , which the highest critical authority in our own country has ...
It is impossible to conclude this slight notice of this poem without a feeling of exultation at the tribute paid by foreigners to the transcendant merits of a composition , which the highest critical authority in our own country has ...
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No further seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode : ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The bosom of his father and his God . On dreary Arvon's shore they lie , Smeared with gore.
No further seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode : ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The bosom of his father and his God . On dreary Arvon's shore they lie , Smeared with gore.
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“ This book ought to be largely circulated , not only on account of its scientific merits , though these , as we have in part shown , are great and signal , —but because it is popularly written throughout , and therefore likely to ...
“ This book ought to be largely circulated , not only on account of its scientific merits , though these , as we have in part shown , are great and signal , —but because it is popularly written throughout , and therefore likely to ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | John Van Voorst, 1839 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2004 |
| Length | 64 pages |
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