Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... passion is dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us ...
... passion is dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us ...
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... a moral , spiritual power which man shall do homage to . Ambition , pride , wilfulness , or any * Wordsworth . The Grave of Burns . earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggl PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 43.
... a moral , spiritual power which man shall do homage to . Ambition , pride , wilfulness , or any * Wordsworth . The Grave of Burns . earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggl PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 43.
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From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed. earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggl all in vain against a divine appointment , and sinks into more woful servitude , and the primeval curse weighs a thousand fold upon her , and ...
From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed. earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggl all in vain against a divine appointment , and sinks into more woful servitude , and the primeval curse weighs a thousand fold upon her , and ...
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... Passion is blind , not love ; her wondrous might Informs with three - fold power man's inward sight ; To her deep glance the soul , at large displayed , Shows all its mingled mass of light and shade : Men call her blind when she but ...
... Passion is blind , not love ; her wondrous might Informs with three - fold power man's inward sight ; To her deep glance the soul , at large displayed , Shows all its mingled mass of light and shade : Men call her blind when she but ...
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... passion , and so it gives power to the mind , in making us the better know ourselves and our fellow - beings . But most inadequate are his conceptions of truth , who thinks it has no range beyond the facts and outward things which ...
... passion , and so it gives power to the mind , in making us the better know ourselves and our fellow - beings . But most inadequate are his conceptions of truth , who thinks it has no range beyond the facts and outward things which ...
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