Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... sound and congenial criticism ; he will tell how , by such influences , the activity of his thoughts is quickened - how his judgment of books is . often the joint product of his own reflections , and the contact of the wisdom and ...
... sound and congenial criticism ; he will tell how , by such influences , the activity of his thoughts is quickened - how his judgment of books is . often the joint product of his own reflections , and the contact of the wisdom and ...
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... sound in this inanimate world ; and that has its in- fluences on the soul of man : we are dwelling in the social world of kindred human beings , giving and receiving from one another impressions to last , it may be , through eternity ...
... sound in this inanimate world ; and that has its in- fluences on the soul of man : we are dwelling in the social world of kindred human beings , giving and receiving from one another impressions to last , it may be , through eternity ...
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... sound of conflicting opinions . and opposing theories . It is a discussion into which I mean not to enter , but only to touch upon in its connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it ...
... sound of conflicting opinions . and opposing theories . It is a discussion into which I mean not to enter , but only to touch upon in its connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it ...
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... sound humourous literature may be found throughout English language , in prose and verse , from its earliest periods down to our own times , -from Chaucer to Southey and Charles Lamb ; and it behooves us to blend it with graver reading ...
... sound humourous literature may be found throughout English language , in prose and verse , from its earliest periods down to our own times , -from Chaucer to Southey and Charles Lamb ; and it behooves us to blend it with graver reading ...
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... be for a weary length of centuries trodden on by the infidel foot of the Saracen ; and yet the sounds that issued from the harp of Jerusalem's king , silenced in the desecrated city , have never been hushed elsewhere , 76 LECTURE SECOND .
... be for a weary length of centuries trodden on by the infidel foot of the Saracen ; and yet the sounds that issued from the harp of Jerusalem's king , silenced in the desecrated city , have never been hushed elsewhere , 76 LECTURE SECOND .
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