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... expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who has exercised his powers alike in ...
... expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who has exercised his powers alike in ...
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... expression , even if you wished to bring them forth from the recess of silence - motions of the soul , which word nor deed do justice to ? Do you not know that there are sympathies , affinities with our fellow - beings , and with the ...
... expression , even if you wished to bring them forth from the recess of silence - motions of the soul , which word nor deed do justice to ? Do you not know that there are sympathies , affinities with our fellow - beings , and with the ...
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... expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what science can tell of its 86 LECTURE THIRD .
... expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what science can tell of its 86 LECTURE THIRD .
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... expressions , or artificial ways of stating a plain thing , the writer is clearly an affected man . If it be plain and simple , always clear , but never eloquent , the writer may be a very sensi- ble man , but is too hard and dry to be ...
... expressions , or artificial ways of stating a plain thing , the writer is clearly an affected man . If it be plain and simple , always clear , but never eloquent , the writer may be a very sensi- ble man , but is too hard and dry to be ...
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... expressions ; I mean a propensity very common - some- what more so , perhaps , to one sex ( I will not say which ) than the other to employ words of force disproportionate to the occasion , especially in the expression of feelings ...
... expressions ; I mean a propensity very common - some- what more so , perhaps , to one sex ( I will not say which ) than the other to employ words of force disproportionate to the occasion , especially in the expression of feelings ...
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