Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... considered a high academical distinction , that his disappointment was most keen and depressing . secluded mode of life , exempt from the world's rough com- petitions ; his modest wishes ; his consciousness of services rendered and ...
... considered a high academical distinction , that his disappointment was most keen and depressing . secluded mode of life , exempt from the world's rough com- petitions ; his modest wishes ; his consciousness of services rendered and ...
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... considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who ...
... considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who ...
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... lecture for that evening ; —the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . The English Language . * Medium of 84 LECTURE SECOND .
... lecture for that evening ; —the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . The English Language . * Medium of 84 LECTURE SECOND .
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... considered simply as an organ of expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what ...
... considered simply as an organ of expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what ...
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... considered condemnation of our native tongue . . . In dramatic verse , more particularly , our English combinations of consonants are in- valuable , not only for the purpose of reflecting grace and softness by contrast , or accelerating ...
... considered condemnation of our native tongue . . . In dramatic verse , more particularly , our English combinations of consonants are in- valuable , not only for the purpose of reflecting grace and softness by contrast , or accelerating ...
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