The North American Review, Volumen 14Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1822 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... reasons , that they are apt to be flighty in their characters , and imprudent in their conduct . Poetry of this kind is a little intellectual dissipation , which calls up a blush on the cheek of the veteran in some profession , after a ...
... reasons , that they are apt to be flighty in their characters , and imprudent in their conduct . Poetry of this kind is a little intellectual dissipation , which calls up a blush on the cheek of the veteran in some profession , after a ...
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... reasons , are commonly of that class of the genus irritabile vatum , who have more of the irritabile than of the vatum in ... reason , most young men are glad to write their poetry , as they sow their wild oats ; and think as little of ...
... reasons , are commonly of that class of the genus irritabile vatum , who have more of the irritabile than of the vatum in ... reason , most young men are glad to write their poetry , as they sow their wild oats ; and think as little of ...
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... reasons which exist for encouraging moderate merit in other departments , really do not exist here ; for moderate merit in poetry will not grow into excellence ; and , as we have already said , the poetry that is not excellent is not ...
... reasons which exist for encouraging moderate merit in other departments , really do not exist here ; for moderate merit in poetry will not grow into excellence ; and , as we have already said , the poetry that is not excellent is not ...
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... reasons before given , and the last as that of the biographer of prince Henry , under whose direction all the voyages of dis- covery of that day were undertaken , who must have looked into the original documents which relate to these ...
... reasons before given , and the last as that of the biographer of prince Henry , under whose direction all the voyages of dis- covery of that day were undertaken , who must have looked into the original documents which relate to these ...
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... reason whatever for believing that a colony was perma- nently established there before that time . It is however quite probable , that Van der Berg , the Flemish captain , may have touched at one of these islands in 1439 , as he is ...
... reason whatever for believing that a colony was perma- nently established there before that time . It is however quite probable , that Van der Berg , the Flemish captain , may have touched at one of these islands in 1439 , as he is ...
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