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individual pursuits - Friends in Council — Serious and gay books - English
humour — Southey ' s ballad — Necessity of intellectual discipline -
Disadvantage of courses of reading - Books not insulated things — Authors who
guide - Southey ...
individual pursuits - Friends in Council — Serious and gay books - English
humour — Southey ' s ballad — Necessity of intellectual discipline -
Disadvantage of courses of reading - Books not insulated things — Authors who
guide - Southey ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -
o state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and ,
if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing like pretension on ...
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -
o state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and ,
if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing like pretension on ...
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There is but one thing worse , and that is the absence of all laws of the United
States either to prevent the recurrence of such a catastrophe ; to bring to justice
those , if there are any such , who are responsible ; or , at least , to secure a
judicial ...
There is but one thing worse , and that is the absence of all laws of the United
States either to prevent the recurrence of such a catastrophe ; to bring to justice
those , if there are any such , who are responsible ; or , at least , to secure a
judicial ...
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It is a bewildering thing to stand in the presence of a vast concourse of books —
in the midst of them , but feeble , or uncertain , or helpless in the using of them . It
is sad to know that in each one of these volumes there is a spiritual power which
...
It is a bewildering thing to stand in the presence of a vast concourse of books —
in the midst of them , but feeble , or uncertain , or helpless in the using of them . It
is sad to know that in each one of these volumes there is a spiritual power which
...
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... our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance
to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a
few , may be redeemed and animated by the author ' s true humanheartedness .
... our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance
to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a
few , may be redeemed and animated by the author ' s true humanheartedness .
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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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