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... affecting and pensive cast of its theme ' ) ; and that the general public would have liked it as well , if not better , in prose . Perhaps so . Yet obviously the poem owes its reputa- tion to something more than merely its judiciously ...
... affecting and pensive cast of its theme ' ) ; and that the general public would have liked it as well , if not better , in prose . Perhaps so . Yet obviously the poem owes its reputa- tion to something more than merely its judiciously ...
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... affected by the deaths of his mother and of Richard West , his closest friend and erstwhile schoolmate , whom he briefly com- memorated at the end of the Elegy ; that he was religious without being formally so ; that he was a fastidious ...
... affected by the deaths of his mother and of Richard West , his closest friend and erstwhile schoolmate , whom he briefly com- memorated at the end of the Elegy ; that he was religious without being formally so ; that he was a fastidious ...
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