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It was an age of repression , not to say oppression , for children , who had few rights that their elders were bound to respect . To the terrors of the secular arm were added the deeper terrors of the spiritual law , for the people of ...
It was an age of repression , not to say oppression , for children , who had few rights that their elders were bound to respect . To the terrors of the secular arm were added the deeper terrors of the spiritual law , for the people of ...
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his little brochure , published in the following year , and certified to his age from their personal knowledge of himself and his family . They also certified to his extraordinary talents , though they should prefer to have him judged ...
his little brochure , published in the following year , and certified to his age from their personal knowledge of himself and his family . They also certified to his extraordinary talents , though they should prefer to have him judged ...
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He ac cepted , and in 1821 wrote his first poem of any length , “ The Ages , ” which still remains the best poem of the kind that was ever recited before a college society either in this country or in England ; grave , stately ...
He ac cepted , and in 1821 wrote his first poem of any length , “ The Ages , ” which still remains the best poem of the kind that was ever recited before a college society either in this country or in England ; grave , stately ...
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The “ Hymn to Death ” -stately , majestic , consolatory - concludes with a touching tribute to the worth of his good father , who died while he was writing it , at the age of fifty - four . The year 1821 was an important one to Mr.
The “ Hymn to Death ” -stately , majestic , consolatory - concludes with a touching tribute to the worth of his good father , who died while he was writing it , at the age of fifty - four . The year 1821 was an important one to Mr.
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The power of suggestion and of rapid generalization , which was the key - note of “ The Ages , ” lived anew in every line of “ The Prairies , ” in which a series of poems present themselves to the imagination as a series of pictures in ...
The power of suggestion and of rapid generalization , which was the key - note of “ The Ages , ” lived anew in every line of “ The Prairies , ” in which a series of poems present themselves to the imagination as a series of pictures in ...
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