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Seven days afterward , at noon , on the 27th , when almost in sight of his native
land , a fatal collision occurred , and before sun - down , every human being left
upon the ship had sunk under the waves of the ocean . The only survivor who
was ...
Seven days afterward , at noon , on the 27th , when almost in sight of his native
land , a fatal collision occurred , and before sun - down , every human being left
upon the ship had sunk under the waves of the ocean . The only survivor who
was ...
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It is oppressive to conceive what a world of human thought and human passion is
dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to
make its entrance into the mind that is prepared to give it welcome . It is mournful
to ...
It is oppressive to conceive what a world of human thought and human passion is
dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to
make its entrance into the mind that is prepared to give it welcome . It is mournful
to ...
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It is the relation to universal humanity which constitutes literature ; it matters not
how elevated , whether it be history ... to the unquestioning faith and untutored
intellect of childhood : let it but be addressed to our common human nature , it is ...
It is the relation to universal humanity which constitutes literature ; it matters not
how elevated , whether it be history ... to the unquestioning faith and untutored
intellect of childhood : let it but be addressed to our common human nature , it is ...
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The books which do not enter into the literature of a language are limited in their
uses , for they hold their intercourse with something narrower than human nature
, while that which is literature has an audience - chamber capacious as the soul ...
The books which do not enter into the literature of a language are limited in their
uses , for they hold their intercourse with something narrower than human nature
, while that which is literature has an audience - chamber capacious as the soul ...
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The books that are not literature have the professional , the technical , but not the
human stamp : some , the law - books for instance , put on an outward garb of
their own , as if to warn all but one class of readers away from them . But observe
...
The books that are not literature have the professional , the technical , but not the
human stamp : some , the law - books for instance , put on an outward garb of
their own , as if to warn all but one class of readers away from them . But observe
...
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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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