Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... teach an angler's subtle craft , but infusing into his art so much of Christian meekness , so deep a feeling for the beauties of earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the ...
... teach an angler's subtle craft , but infusing into his art so much of Christian meekness , so deep a feeling for the beauties of earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the ...
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... teach you more of man , Of moral evil and of good , Than all the sages can . † My present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it ...
... teach you more of man , Of moral evil and of good , Than all the sages can . † My present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it ...
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... teach ; the function of the second is to move . The very highest work that has ever existed in the literature of knowledge ... teaching be but placed in a better order , and instantly it is superseded . Whereas the feeblest work in the ...
... teach ; the function of the second is to move . The very highest work that has ever existed in the literature of knowledge ... teaching be but placed in a better order , and instantly it is superseded . Whereas the feeblest work in the ...
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... teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us the whole truth : " And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him . " " God doth not say ...
... teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us the whole truth : " And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him . " " God doth not say ...
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... teach- ing the people to understand and to admire what is ad- mirable . In following out the general principle presented in the last lecture , that literature - that which is essentially litc- ra ' re in the highest sense of the term ...
... teach- ing the people to understand and to admire what is ad- mirable . In following out the general principle presented in the last lecture , that literature - that which is essentially litc- ra ' re in the highest sense of the term ...
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