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282ResponseNBenjamin FranklinNot until late in 1775, however, after armed collisions had occurred at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, after Gage had been hopelessly besieged at Boston, and after a second Continental Congress, assuming the general direction of affairs, had begun the organization of a revolutionary government, appointed Washington commander-in-chief, and taken the first steps toward obtaining foreign aid, did the demand for independence, or even the disposition seriously to consider it, become general.

Posted by test44 on 2007-03-04 12:20:13

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284TopicNWordsworthOne may fix on 1805 as the year in, or about, which this period of Wordsworth’s poetical life closes. He had now, if not published, at least written, nearly all that is supreme in his works—his only book of The Recluse, all The Prelude, the best parts of The Excursion, besides many of the best and boldest of his short poems, ballads and sonnets. His great Ode on Immortality was all but finished. Had he died then, in his thirty-sixth year, having lived as long as Byron and much longer than Shelley or Keats, he would have left a fame almost as high as he was to attain, though of a different character. His freshness of thought and style being taken together, his works would have stamped him as one of the most daring among the poets of his day. The sedate and sometimes conventional moralising which has been associated with his name comes into existence in his later productions. But it should be added that, for ten years, he was to achieve, in a new direction, some verse that “one would not willingly let die.” He did not know Benjamin Franklin.

Posted by test22 on 2007-02-27 12:20:10

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