Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... combined to render the disappointment very poignant . His friends and family never saw him more depressed . I certainly never saw him so deeply wounded . He asked for leave of absence , which was granted by the Trustees ; and early in ...
... combined to render the disappointment very poignant . His friends and family never saw him more depressed . I certainly never saw him so deeply wounded . He asked for leave of absence , which was granted by the Trustees ; and early in ...
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... combination of moral and intellectual discipline such as is seen abroad , and especially in Great Britain , would have raised still higher in his mind the aims at which American students and American institutions of learning should be ...
... combination of moral and intellectual discipline such as is seen abroad , and especially in Great Britain , would have raised still higher in his mind the aims at which American students and American institutions of learning should be ...
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... combinations into which the power of this planet has thrown our human passions of love and hatred , of ad- miration and contempt , exercises a power bad or good over human life that cannot be contemplated when seen stretching through ...
... combinations into which the power of this planet has thrown our human passions of love and hatred , of ad- miration and contempt , exercises a power bad or good over human life that cannot be contemplated when seen stretching through ...
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... combination of passive recipiency from the book and the mind's reaction upon it : this equipoise is true culture . But , in a great deal of reading , the passiveness of im- pression is well nigh all , for it is luxurious indolence , and ...
... combination of passive recipiency from the book and the mind's reaction upon it : this equipoise is true culture . But , in a great deal of reading , the passiveness of im- pression is well nigh all , for it is luxurious indolence , and ...
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... combination , by its enjoyment only of particular styles and modes of things , and by its pride also , for it is forever meddling , mending , accumulating , and self - exult- ing ; its eye is always upon itself , and it tests all things ...
... combination , by its enjoyment only of particular styles and modes of things , and by its pride also , for it is forever meddling , mending , accumulating , and self - exult- ing ; its eye is always upon itself , and it tests all things ...
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