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To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of literature , with the sorry
guidance of good intentions and inexperience , most needful are the helping
hand and the pointing finger ; to him who has travelled long in that same domain
...
To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of literature , with the sorry
guidance of good intentions and inexperience , most needful are the helping
hand and the pointing finger ; to him who has travelled long in that same domain
...
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Secular literature , in its various departments , and sacred literature , casting its
lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of
their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own English words ;
there is ...
Secular literature , in its various departments , and sacred literature , casting its
lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of
their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own English words ;
there is ...
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This great distinctive principle gives good guidance to us , and it may be made
most practical if a little thoughtful discrimination be bestowed in our intercourse
with books ; instead of apathy on the one hand , or on the other the voracious ...
This great distinctive principle gives good guidance to us , and it may be made
most practical if a little thoughtful discrimination be bestowed in our intercourse
with books ; instead of apathy on the one hand , or on the other the voracious ...
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I have known , on the other hand , that power of enjoyment lost , after years of
intelligent and habitual reading , by giving way to a narrow bigotry in the choice
of books . Daintiness , let it be always remembered , is disease , and
fastidiousness ...
I have known , on the other hand , that power of enjoyment lost , after years of
intelligent and habitual reading , by giving way to a narrow bigotry in the choice
of books . Daintiness , let it be always remembered , is disease , and
fastidiousness ...
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But true taste is forever growing , learning , reading , worshipping , laying its hand
upon its mouth because it is astonished , casting its shoes from off its feet
because it finds all ground holy , lamenting over itself , and testing itself by the
way it ...
But true taste is forever growing , learning , reading , worshipping , laying its hand
upon its mouth because it is astonished , casting its shoes from off its feet
because it finds all ground holy , lamenting over itself , and testing itself by the
way it ...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
LECTURES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE, FROM CHAURER TO TENNYSON HENRY REED Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
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| Titel | Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson |
| Författare | Henry Reed |
| Redaktör | William Bradford Reed |
| Utgåva | 3 |
| Utgivare | Parry & McMillan, 1855 |
| Original från | Harvard University |
| Digitaliserad | 13 jan 2009 |
| Längd | 411 sidor |
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