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... poets have ever formed of any people , except in ancient Greece . They are therefore the conclusive proof that the people from whom they came is poetic , not prosaic . The great majority are , it is true , prosaic enough ; but so have ...
... poets have ever formed of any people , except in ancient Greece . They are therefore the conclusive proof that the people from whom they came is poetic , not prosaic . The great majority are , it is true , prosaic enough ; but so have ...
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... poet . William Barnes belonged to a different class ; but it is highly significant that he found in Dorset a dialect which , though it had not been cultivated , was suitable for his purposes as a poet . If there had not been some poetic ...
... poet . William Barnes belonged to a different class ; but it is highly significant that he found in Dorset a dialect which , though it had not been cultivated , was suitable for his purposes as a poet . If there had not been some poetic ...
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... poet's sons . Whatever the object , it presents us with a picture of life as it was lived by those by whom and for ... poetic art in the Peninsula . If , then , poetry is so old an institution in Arabia , how comes it that our earliest ...
... poet's sons . Whatever the object , it presents us with a picture of life as it was lived by those by whom and for ... poetic art in the Peninsula . If , then , poetry is so old an institution in Arabia , how comes it that our earliest ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS BY THE RIGHT | 1 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191617 | 33 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191718 | 51 |
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