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... hand , I apprehend that often a taste for reading is quenched by rigid and injudicious prescription of books in which the mind takes no interest , can assimilate nothing to itself , and recognises no progress but what the eye takes ...
... hand , I apprehend that often a taste for reading is quenched by rigid and injudicious prescription of books in which the mind takes no interest , can assimilate nothing to itself , and recognises no progress but what the eye takes ...
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... hand , gives himself wholly to visionary poetic dreamings is false to his Saxon blood ; and equally false is he who divorces himself from com- munion with the poets . There is no great philosopher in our language in whose genius ...
... hand , gives himself wholly to visionary poetic dreamings is false to his Saxon blood ; and equally false is he who divorces himself from com- munion with the poets . There is no great philosopher in our language in whose genius ...
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... in after times , when Israel was hunted by the hand of Midian into caves and dens— when , smitten by the Philistine , the ark of God was snatched away - when , after Jerusalem had known its APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 75.
... in after times , when Israel was hunted by the hand of Midian into caves and dens— when , smitten by the Philistine , the ark of God was snatched away - when , after Jerusalem had known its APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 75.
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... hand of poet , of painter , or of sculptor . We ought to remember , then , that when we let imaginative studies drop out of our habits of reading , we neglect a whole region of truth and reality which the highest prose authority ...
... hand of poet , of painter , or of sculptor . We ought to remember , then , that when we let imaginative studies drop out of our habits of reading , we neglect a whole region of truth and reality which the highest prose authority ...
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... hands of its great masters . I wish , however , to accomplish something more . the same time , on an occasion like this , and within the limits of one lecturé , it would not be practicable to enter into technical details of either the ...
... hands of its great masters . I wish , however , to accomplish something more . the same time , on an occasion like this , and within the limits of one lecturé , it would not be practicable to enter into technical details of either the ...
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