Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any outer counsel , shall the silent communings of your heart tell you whether the oracle was a good or an evil one . I have thus sought to ...
... close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any outer counsel , shall the silent communings of your heart tell you whether the oracle was a good or an evil one . I have thus sought to ...
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... close up any of the natural resources to the mind , there follows feebleness or disproportioned power , or moodiness and fantastic melancholy , and , in extreme cases , the crazed brain . If the statistics be accurate , it is an ...
... close up any of the natural resources to the mind , there follows feebleness or disproportioned power , or moodiness and fantastic melancholy , and , in extreme cases , the crazed brain . If the statistics be accurate , it is an ...
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... close begirt , however , with the fierce discords of the Indian - tongues for years and years their home was hemmed in within a narrow strip along the Atlantic , the English and the French languages hav- : * Dedication of Cleopatra to ...
... close begirt , however , with the fierce discords of the Indian - tongues for years and years their home was hemmed in within a narrow strip along the Atlantic , the English and the French languages hav- : * Dedication of Cleopatra to ...
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... close by a change in the structure of the stanza and the single long line with which , at the end , the imagination travels forth ; “ O ! that our lives , which flee so fast , In purity were such , That not an image of the past Should ...
... close by a change in the structure of the stanza and the single long line with which , at the end , the imagination travels forth ; “ O ! that our lives , which flee so fast , In purity were such , That not an image of the past Should ...
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... close and active sympathy ; he was a courtier and a soldier , as well as a student . No poet has ever held such large and free communion with the world and his fellow - men . stood in the presence of kings and nobles ; and became versed ...
... close and active sympathy ; he was a courtier and a soldier , as well as a student . No poet has ever held such large and free communion with the world and his fellow - men . stood in the presence of kings and nobles ; and became versed ...
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