Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... tell how much of good we may thus do to one another . We cannot measure the value of unstudied and almost casual influences . A random word of genuine admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall ...
... tell how much of good we may thus do to one another . We cannot measure the value of unstudied and almost casual influences . A random word of genuine admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall ...
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... tell you that it is still in his daily experience to find his choice of books not an arbitrary and lawless choosing , but a process open to the influences of sound and congenial criticism ; he will tell how , by such influences , the ...
... tell you that it is still in his daily experience to find his choice of books not an arbitrary and lawless choosing , but a process open to the influences of sound and congenial criticism ; he will tell how , by such influences , the ...
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... tell me what precise meaning it is meant to convey . The term had an appropriateness for much in the literature of ... tells us it means " polite literature , " which does not help the matter much . I should not have thought it worth ...
... tell me what precise meaning it is meant to convey . The term had an appropriateness for much in the literature of ... tells us it means " polite literature , " which does not help the matter much . I should not have thought it worth ...
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... tell you whether the oracle was a good or an evil one . I have thus sought to show how , amid the hundreds of thousands of books which are accumulating in the world , we may select as " literature " those which are character- ized by ...
... tell you whether the oracle was a good or an evil one . I have thus sought to show how , amid the hundreds of thousands of books which are accumulating in the world , we may select as " literature " those which are character- ized by ...
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... tells us , while the same thing told in other words will sound vain and unreal . There is wondrous agency of power and beauty in language , a winning witchery in words - grandly and beautifully so in our ... tell of its 86 LECTURE THIRD .
... tells us , while the same thing told in other words will sound vain and unreal . There is wondrous agency of power and beauty in language , a winning witchery in words - grandly and beautifully so in our ... tell of its 86 LECTURE THIRD .
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