Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 387 էջ |
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... hearts have sorrowfully ponder'd , " Shall we behold his gentle face no more ? " The silent Sea no glad response returning , We cry , " O Sun ! that lightest nature's face , Dost thou not shine upon some favour'd place Where he is tost ...
... hearts have sorrowfully ponder'd , " Shall we behold his gentle face no more ? " The silent Sea no glad response returning , We cry , " O Sun ! that lightest nature's face , Dost thou not shine upon some favour'd place Where he is tost ...
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... heart . It is this , and this alone — this universality — which places a book in a Nation's literature . It matters not what the subject , or what the modes of treating - be there but one touch of nature to make the whole world kin — it ...
... heart . It is this , and this alone — this universality — which places a book in a Nation's literature . It matters not what the subject , or what the modes of treating - be there but one touch of nature to make the whole world kin — it ...
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... heart . The books that are not a literature have the professional , the technical , but not the human stamp : some ... hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our ...
... heart . The books that are not a literature have the professional , the technical , but not the human stamp : some ... hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our ...
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... heart may beat all the truer for it ; the mind's eye may see all the clearer for it . As you close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any outer counsel , shall the silent communings ...
... heart may beat all the truer for it ; the mind's eye may see all the clearer for it . As you close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any outer counsel , shall the silent communings ...
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... heart as friends , and friends for life : it will give also that confidence , most valuable in the days of multitudinous publications , the confidence in deter- mining what books , and they are very many , it is good to be immutably ...
... heart as friends , and friends for life : it will give also that confidence , most valuable in the days of multitudinous publications , the confidence in deter- mining what books , and they are very many , it is good to be immutably ...
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