Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... readers away from them . But observe the books which are Literature , how they speak to a peo- ple - to a whole nation - to scattered nations over the • earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as ...
... readers away from them . But observe the books which are Literature , how they speak to a peo- ple - to a whole nation - to scattered nations over the • earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as ...
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... readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with the heathen fable , bright threads of the glory of Christian faith ; and it is for every one who takes thought of the deep things of his nature , the mysteries of his ...
... readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with the heathen fable , bright threads of the glory of Christian faith ; and it is for every one who takes thought of the deep things of his nature , the mysteries of his ...
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... womankind Beats with his blood , and trust in all things high Comnes easy to him , and , though he trip and fall , He shall not blind his soul with clay . " * H. R. novel - reader , for instance , the luxury of PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE .
... womankind Beats with his blood , and trust in all things high Comnes easy to him , and , though he trip and fall , He shall not blind his soul with clay . " * H. R. novel - reader , for instance , the luxury of PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE .
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... reader's mind - an active sympathy with the book ; and those are the best books which demand that of you . And here let me notice how unfortunate and , indeed , mis- chievous a term is the word " taste " as applied in inter- course with ...
... reader's mind - an active sympathy with the book ; and those are the best books which demand that of you . And here let me notice how unfortunate and , indeed , mis- chievous a term is the word " taste " as applied in inter- course with ...
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... readers who dwell altogether in their own times , busy with what one day produces after another . This is a great error ; and they are the less able to gain a rational knowledge of that very litera- ture , because exclusive familiarity ...
... readers who dwell altogether in their own times , busy with what one day produces after another . This is a great error ; and they are the less able to gain a rational knowledge of that very litera- ture , because exclusive familiarity ...
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