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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 for whom
our souls are yearning ? ” No answering voice allays our trembling fears , And ...
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 for whom
our souls are yearning ? ” No answering voice allays our trembling fears , And ...
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... those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may
win a quick and kindly response , for the sense of delight is deepened the wider it
is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment .
... those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may
win a quick and kindly response , for the sense of delight is deepened the wider it
is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment .
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It is sad to know that in each one of these volumes there is a spiritual power
which might stir some , kindred power in our own souls , which might guide , and
inform , and elevate ; and yet that it should be a power all hidden from us .
It is sad to know that in each one of these volumes there is a spiritual power
which might stir some , kindred power in our own souls , which might guide , and
inform , and elevate ; and yet that it should be a power all hidden from us .
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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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How much mightier must be the agency of literature as it passes beyond and
above that which is local and limited , temporary or conventional , into the region
of the spiritual and the eternal , when it enters into the very soul of man ...
How much mightier must be the agency of literature as it passes beyond and
above that which is local and limited , temporary or conventional , into the region
of the spiritual and the eternal , when it enters into the very soul of man ...
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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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