Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... wise and good of the Mother country , especially those who had made education in its highest branches the study and business of their lives , Professor Reed , we may well believe , would have resumed his American duties with new zeal ...
... wise and good of the Mother country , especially those who had made education in its highest branches the study and business of their lives , Professor Reed , we may well believe , would have resumed his American duties with new zeal ...
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... great poets . We may perhaps remember , too , how the chastening influence of wise and genial criticism may have won our spirits away from some malignant fascination that fastened on the unripe intellect 26 LECTURE FIRST .
... great poets . We may perhaps remember , too , how the chastening influence of wise and genial criticism may have won our spirits away from some malignant fascination that fastened on the unripe intellect 26 LECTURE FIRST .
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... 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 world 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 world of ...
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... wise and happy choice , and the perilous presence of what is vicious in the guise of books . Such are some of the difficulties which beset us , when we would bring the influence of books into the culture of our spiritual nature . These ...
... wise and happy choice , and the perilous presence of what is vicious in the guise of books . Such are some of the difficulties which beset us , when we would bring the influence of books into the culture of our spiritual nature . These ...
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... wise purposes is sensible to us , and we may thus lose that contemplative spirit , which can " find tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , sermons in stones , and good in every thing . " We must not be un- mindful how ...
... wise purposes is sensible to us , and we may thus lose that contemplative spirit , which can " find tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , sermons in stones , and good in every thing . " We must not be un- mindful how ...
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