Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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Henry Reed. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -to state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and , if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing ...
Henry Reed. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -to state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and , if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing ...
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... simple justice to the living and the dead , to us who grieve and to him for whom we mourn . This friendship was faithful and affectionate to the end . Mr. Reed entered the Sophomore class at the University of Pennsylvania in September ...
... simple justice to the living and the dead , to us who grieve and to him for whom we mourn . This friendship was faithful and affectionate to the end . Mr. Reed entered the Sophomore class at the University of Pennsylvania in September ...
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... 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 , outliving many a more ambitious book , and Izaak Walton has ...
... 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 , outliving many a more ambitious book , and Izaak Walton has ...
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... simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to identify all things in the shape of books with literature . Whatever is meant to minis- er to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or ...
... simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to identify all things in the shape of books with literature . Whatever is meant to minis- er to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or ...
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... simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some of the manifold powers and uses of a literature : it would not thus address itself to all human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose — some worthier ...
... simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some of the manifold powers and uses of a literature : it would not thus address itself to all human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose — some worthier ...
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