Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... poet - moralist's truer wisdom , " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a few ...
... poet - moralist's truer wisdom , " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a few ...
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... poet has left to the world ; on the contrary , he has given others of equal worth and beauty , varied to the infinite variety of womanly duty . Indeed , what a woman ought to do often depends upon what man does , and very often , too ...
... poet has left to the world ; on the contrary , he has given others of equal worth and beauty , varied to the infinite variety of womanly duty . Indeed , what a woman ought to do often depends upon what man does , and very often , too ...
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... poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any ...
... poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any ...
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... poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet of the day , or a confident antipathy to another ; and , all the while , such confidence may be entirely unequal ...
... poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet of the day , or a confident antipathy to another ; and , all the while , such confidence may be entirely unequal ...
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... poets of former centuries . Let him , who is quick to con- demn , or slow to admire , ask whether the fault may not be in himself : -it may be the caprice or the apathy of uncultivated taste : he , and he alone , whose capacity of ...
... poets of former centuries . Let him , who is quick to con- demn , or slow to admire , ask whether the fault may not be in himself : -it may be the caprice or the apathy of uncultivated taste : he , and he alone , whose capacity of ...
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