Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... darker than aught in the region of romance . In our own times , it was for all his race that Byron gave utter- ance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with ...
... darker than aught in the region of romance . In our own times , it was for all his race that Byron gave utter- ance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with ...
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... darkness ; by weapons even from this book he superannuates and de- stroys it , so that soon the name of Newton remains as a mere nominis umbra , but his book , as a living power , has transmigrated into other forms . Now , on the ...
... darkness ; by weapons even from this book he superannuates and de- stroys it , so that soon the name of Newton remains as a mere nominis umbra , but his book , as a living power , has transmigrated into other forms . Now , on the ...
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... darkness , to discern The spiritual splendours , how they shine and burn . All bright endowments of a noble mind They , who with joy bohold them , soonest find ; And better none its stains of frailty know Than they who fain would see it ...
... darkness , to discern The spiritual splendours , how they shine and burn . All bright endowments of a noble mind They , who with joy bohold them , soonest find ; And better none its stains of frailty know Than they who fain would see it ...
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... darkness , or to the still safer guidance of the slow - moving stars . The principle which I have thus endeavoured to ex- emplify , is important in all the divisions of literature . It is needful to lift us out of the influences which ...
... darkness , or to the still safer guidance of the slow - moving stars . The principle which I have thus endeavoured to ex- emplify , is important in all the divisions of literature . It is needful to lift us out of the influences which ...
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... dark , after having been steeped , as it were , in such an atmo- sphere of brilliance ! " * This was the constitution not of one man alone , but of the greatest minds of the race ; for if our Anglo - Saxon character could be analyzed ...
... dark , after having been steeped , as it were , in such an atmo- sphere of brilliance ! " * This was the constitution not of one man alone , but of the greatest minds of the race ; for if our Anglo - Saxon character could be analyzed ...
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