The Poetical Works of Dr. John LeydenW.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 304 pages |
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... bright and brief career is o'er , And mute his tuneful strains : Quenched is his lamp of varied lore , That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains . -SCOTT . 44 Leyden caught and poured ...
... bright and brief career is o'er , And mute his tuneful strains : Quenched is his lamp of varied lore , That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains . -SCOTT . 44 Leyden caught and poured ...
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... Professor , and threw the students into uproarious laughter . But the practised eye of the Professor quickly discerned and encouraged the bright genius that revealed itself in all his exercises . Leyden soon learned MEMOIR . XV.
... Professor , and threw the students into uproarious laughter . But the practised eye of the Professor quickly discerned and encouraged the bright genius that revealed itself in all his exercises . Leyden soon learned MEMOIR . XV.
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... bright career was eclipsed in the gloom of his early death . William Erskine , Esq . , states in a paper read before the Literary Society at Bombay , that Dr Anderson's advice was always of the greatest service to Leyden , and that no ...
... bright career was eclipsed in the gloom of his early death . William Erskine , Esq . , states in a paper read before the Literary Society at Bombay , that Dr Anderson's advice was always of the greatest service to Leyden , and that no ...
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... bright careers at the very time when both were entering into the enjoyment of those laurels for which they had so energetically struggled . Rev. A. Murray died when only thirty - eight years old , after he had held the Chair of Hebrew ...
... bright careers at the very time when both were entering into the enjoyment of those laurels for which they had so energetically struggled . Rev. A. Murray died when only thirty - eight years old , after he had held the Chair of Hebrew ...
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... bright poetic luminaries of that period . Campbell and he lived in bitter hostility : they regarded each other with a sullen animosity , mingled with but not mollified by a sort of admiration for each other's distinguishing merits ...
... bright poetic luminaries of that period . Campbell and he lived in bitter hostility : they regarded each other with a sullen animosity , mingled with but not mollified by a sort of admiration for each other's distinguishing merits ...
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