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...When wilt thou come, my love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREAMS. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...WHAT THOU WILT;and I will engage to prove that any action that any one may take a fancy to is at least not wrong according to the glorious doctrine of probabilities, the last apotheosis of this philanthropic system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORALITY MADE EASY. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...poem; indeed, if used with taste and skill, it may constitute the poem itself; but how much more true feeling there is in a sentiment when plainly and simply expressed, than when it is encumbered with an excess of figurative language! For instance, compare the two expressions: "Wilt thou remember me?" and "Wilt thou preserve me in thy memory's shrine?" Who will question the superiority of the former? And is it not also more truly poetical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD ABOUT POETRY. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

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