The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume IIDonald H. Reiman First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Lamb, in publications from the Edinburgh Review to Variety. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names, dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. |
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... poor and vulgar may intereft us , in poetry , by their fituation ; but never , we apprehend , by any fentiments that are peculiar to their con- dition , and still lefs by any language that is characteristic of it . The truth is , that ...
... poor and vulgar may intereft us , in poetry , by their fituation ; but never , we apprehend , by any fentiments that are peculiar to their con- dition , and still lefs by any language that is characteristic of it . The truth is , that ...
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... poor miferable man ! But ' tis a wretched fight to fee His utter wretchednels . For all day long he lies on a grave , And never is he seen to weep , And never is he heard to groan , Nor ever at the hour of prayer Bends his knee , nor ...
... poor miferable man ! But ' tis a wretched fight to fee His utter wretchednels . For all day long he lies on a grave , And never is he seen to weep , And never is he heard to groan , Nor ever at the hour of prayer Bends his knee , nor ...
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... poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes , and brutifying their fublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremit ting labour . For all forts of vice and profligacy in the lower or- ders of fociety , they have the fame ...
... poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes , and brutifying their fublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremit ting labour . For all forts of vice and profligacy in the lower or- ders of fociety , they have the fame ...
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... poor man to murder and rob , in order to make himfelf comfortable , it is no lefs natural for a rich man to gormandize and domineer , in order to have the full ufe of his riches . Wealth is juft as valid an excufe for the one clafs of ...
... poor man to murder and rob , in order to make himfelf comfortable , it is no lefs natural for a rich man to gormandize and domineer , in order to have the full ufe of his riches . Wealth is juft as valid an excufe for the one clafs of ...
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... Poor beaft , he struggles on ; And now the dogs are nigh ! How his heart pants ! you fee The panting of his heart ; And tears like human tears Roll down , along the big veins they perifhed all , All in that dreadful hour : but I was ...
... Poor beaft , he struggles on ; And now the dogs are nigh ! How his heart pants ! you fee The panting of his heart ; And tears like human tears Roll down , along the big veins they perifhed all , All in that dreadful hour : but I was ...
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