Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... given to the reading world of his own countrymen . Immediately on my brother's death in the autumn of last year , or as soon ( and with me it was very soon ) as all hope of possible rescue had faded away , my attention was turned to his ...
... given to the reading world of his own countrymen . Immediately on my brother's death in the autumn of last year , or as soon ( and with me it was very soon ) as all hope of possible rescue had faded away , my attention was turned to his ...
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... given to mankind . The literature of France and of Italy , of Spain , the South of Europe , have their re- spective claims and attractions . Besides the modern mind , there is all that , venerable with the age of thou- sands of years ...
... given to mankind . The literature of France and of Italy , of Spain , the South of Europe , have their re- spective claims and attractions . Besides the modern mind , there is all that , venerable with the age of thou- sands of years ...
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... given it a place in the English vocabulary , and tells us it means " polite literature , " which does not help the matter much . I should not have thought it worth while to stop to comment on this term , if I did not believe it to be ...
... given it a place in the English vocabulary , and tells us it means " polite literature , " which does not help the matter much . I should not have thought it worth while to stop to comment on this term , if I did not believe it to be ...
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... given also ; but this is certain that in all literature of a high order a nation's purest literature , it is power that is given , and not knowledge . But what , it may be asked , is this Power which literature creates in the spirits of ...
... given also ; but this is certain that in all literature of a high order a nation's purest literature , it is power that is given , and not knowledge . But what , it may be asked , is this Power which literature creates in the spirits of ...
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... given others of equal worth and beauty , varied to the infinite variety of womanly duty . Indeed , what a woman ought to do often depends upon what man does , and very often , too , on what he leaves undone so that , while it may be her ...
... given others of equal worth and beauty , varied to the infinite variety of womanly duty . Indeed , what a woman ought to do often depends upon what man does , and very often , too , on what he leaves undone so that , while it may be her ...
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