Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... earth was of beautiful England in her summer garb of verdure . The last words he ever wrote were in a letter of the 20th September to his venerable friend , Mrs. Wordsworth , thanking her and his English friends generally for all she ...
... earth was of beautiful England in her summer garb of verdure . The last words he ever wrote were in a letter of the 20th September to his venerable friend , Mrs. Wordsworth , thanking her and his English friends generally for all she ...
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... earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the songs of bird , of milk - maid , and of minstrel , that this little book on fishing has earned its life of two hundred years already ...
... earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the songs of bird , of milk - maid , and of minstrel , that this little book on fishing has earned its life of two hundred years already ...
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... earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as our English speech ; nay , more , so far as the Babel barriers which make the parti- tions of the earth are overleaped , a literature addresses itself ...
... earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as our English speech ; nay , more , so far as the Babel barriers which make the parti- tions of the earth are overleaped , a literature addresses itself ...
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... earth and sky that for 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 ...
... earth and sky that for 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 ...
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... earth , air , ocean , and the starry sky ; " there is a time to look into the faces of our fellow - beings , the bright and laughing face , or the sad and sorrowing one ; there is a time too for silent , solitary , spiritual looking ...
... earth , air , ocean , and the starry sky ; " there is a time to look into the faces of our fellow - beings , the bright and laughing face , or the sad and sorrowing one ; there is a time too for silent , solitary , spiritual looking ...
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