The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsBell & Daldy, 1870 - 538 Seiten |
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... exalt every idea into a metaphor , to expand every sentiment into a lengthened mystery , voluminous and vast , confused and cloudy . His وو style is not succinct , but incumbered with a On the Prose Style of Poets . 15.
... exalt every idea into a metaphor , to expand every sentiment into a lengthened mystery , voluminous and vast , confused and cloudy . His وو style is not succinct , but incumbered with a On the Prose Style of Poets . 15.
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... sentiments , the profound discoveries , the witty repartees we have uttered in our sleep . The one turn to bombast , the others are mere truisms , and the last abso- lute nonsense . Yet we clothe them certainly with a fancied importance ...
... sentiments , the profound discoveries , the witty repartees we have uttered in our sleep . The one turn to bombast , the others are mere truisms , and the last abso- lute nonsense . Yet we clothe them certainly with a fancied importance ...
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... sentiments , with respect to persons or things in the same way . We are not hypo- crites in our sleep . The curb is taken off from our passions , and our imagination wanders at will . When awake , we check these rising thoughts , and ...
... sentiments , with respect to persons or things in the same way . We are not hypo- crites in our sleep . The curb is taken off from our passions , and our imagination wanders at will . When awake , we check these rising thoughts , and ...
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... sentiments than others . These they have committed to books of memory , have bequeathed as a lasting legacy to posterity ; and such persons have become standard authors . We visit at the shrine , drink in some measure of the inspiration ...
... sentiments than others . These they have committed to books of memory , have bequeathed as a lasting legacy to posterity ; and such persons have become standard authors . We visit at the shrine , drink in some measure of the inspiration ...
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... sentiment . We must have some outstanding object for the mind , as well as the eye , to dwell on and to recur to - something marked and decisive to give a tone and texture to the moral feelings . Not only is the attention thus roused ...
... sentiment . We must have some outstanding object for the mind , as well as the eye , to dwell on and to recur to - something marked and decisive to give a tone and texture to the moral feelings . Not only is the attention thus roused ...
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