Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
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... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall , lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall , lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
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... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
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... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
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... while , such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living ! poets must be more or less in dispute ; 60 LECTURE SECOND .
... while , such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living ! poets must be more or less in dispute ; 60 LECTURE SECOND .
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