Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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Page 356
... perhaps in the gaiety of a saturnalian license , but gradually carried to an excess which would have been ludicrous , had it not sometimes produced tragical consequences . It threatened a great many more , and scattered , meantime , a ...
... perhaps in the gaiety of a saturnalian license , but gradually carried to an excess which would have been ludicrous , had it not sometimes produced tragical consequences . It threatened a great many more , and scattered , meantime , a ...
Page 427
... Perhaps not one of us escapes that dream ; perhaps , as by some sorrow- ful doom of man , that dream repeats for every one of us , through every generation , the original temptation in Eden . Every one of us , in this dream , has a bait ...
... Perhaps not one of us escapes that dream ; perhaps , as by some sorrow- ful doom of man , that dream repeats for every one of us , through every generation , the original temptation in Eden . Every one of us , in this dream , has a bait ...
Page 548
... perhaps . You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist , and load every rift ' of your subject with ore.1 The thought of such discipline must fall like cold chains ...
... perhaps . You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist , and load every rift ' of your subject with ore.1 The thought of such discipline must fall like cold chains ...
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JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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