The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St. James's, Volume 1Smith, Elder, and Company, 1848 |
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... poets . In the same passage he alludes to those traces of a deluge of which we have just spoken , and to the enormous bones occasionally dug up , which , with the natural inclination of a poet , he was willing to look upon as relics of ...
... poets . In the same passage he alludes to those traces of a deluge of which we have just spoken , and to the enormous bones occasionally dug up , which , with the natural inclination of a poet , he was willing to look upon as relics of ...
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... poet of celebrity . At the back of the old church was an enormous rose - window , which we may imagine the young poet to have contemplated with delight , in his fondness for ornaments of that cast ; and the whole building was calculated ...
... poet of celebrity . At the back of the old church was an enormous rose - window , which we may imagine the young poet to have contemplated with delight , in his fondness for ornaments of that cast ; and the whole building was calculated ...
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... poet . There is an ungainliness in the lines we have just quoted , and he was probably too much given to action to be a poet ; but there is something in him that relished of the truth and directness of poetry , when he had to touch upon ...
... poet . There is an ungainliness in the lines we have just quoted , and he was probably too much given to action to be a poet ; but there is something in him that relished of the truth and directness of poetry , when he had to touch upon ...
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