Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... light is deepened the wider it is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment . There is perhaps no one , to whom the intercourse with books has grown to be happy and habitual , who cannot recall the time ...
... light is deepened the wider it is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment . There is perhaps no one , to whom the intercourse with books has grown to be happy and habitual , who cannot recall the time ...
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... light of wise criticism , new powers and new beauties are made visible to our minds in books the most familiar . I have thus alluded , at the outset , to the importance of the guidance which we may receive in our intercourse with the ...
... light of wise criticism , new powers and new beauties are made visible to our minds in books the most familiar . I have thus alluded , at the outset , to the importance of the guidance which we may receive in our intercourse with the ...
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... lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own Eng- lish words ; there is the host as large , which , in the kin- dred dialects of the ...
... lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own Eng- lish words ; there is the host as large , which , in the kin- dred dialects of the ...
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... light and more perishable literature , recreating and gladdening the hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our abundant and varied English essay - literature ...
... light and more perishable literature , recreating and gladdening the hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our abundant and varied English essay - literature ...
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... light over profane history , by tracing God's provi- dence in the annals of a pagan people . It is every man and every woman whom Spenser leads into the sunny and the shadowy spaces of his marvellous allegory ; and Shakspeare into that ...
... light over profane history , by tracing God's provi- dence in the annals of a pagan people . It is every man and every woman whom Spenser leads into the sunny and the shadowy spaces of his marvellous allegory ; and Shakspeare into that ...
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