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... prose and poetry . This is very apt to be neg- lected , and the consequence is a great loss of power , moral and ... prose writers also a necessity of one's nature . The disproportion usually lies in the other direction- prose reading to ...
... prose and poetry . This is very apt to be neg- lected , and the consequence is a great loss of power , moral and ... prose writers also a necessity of one's nature . The disproportion usually lies in the other direction- prose reading to ...
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... prose is the vehicle they are accustomed to for this par- ticular kind of matter , and they will apply their minds to it in prose , and they will refuse their minds to it in verse . " " * The neglect of poetical reading is increased by ...
... prose is the vehicle they are accustomed to for this par- ticular kind of matter , and they will apply their minds to it in prose , and they will refuse their minds to it in verse . " " * The neglect of poetical reading is increased by ...
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... prose and poetic reading , a higher authority is to be found than the predominant characteristic of the Saxon intellect as displayed in our literature . In the One Book , which , given for the good of all mankind , is supernaturally ...
... prose and poetic reading , a higher authority is to be found than the predominant characteristic of the Saxon intellect as displayed in our literature . In the One Book , which , given for the good of all mankind , is supernaturally ...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed William Bradford Reed. prose in sacred Writ — the best means , we must believe , for the universal and perpetual good of man ; and if lite- rature have , as I have endeavoured to prove in the pre ...
From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed William Bradford Reed. prose in sacred Writ — the best means , we must believe , for the universal and perpetual good of man ; and if lite- rature have , as I have endeavoured to prove in the pre ...
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... prose and poetry studied in well- adjusted proportion . I speak of them as distinct , but let it be remembered that they are not contra - distinguished , for the best prose and the best poetry are but varied forms of uttered wisdom ...
... prose and poetry studied in well- adjusted proportion . I speak of them as distinct , but let it be remembered that they are not contra - distinguished , for the best prose and the best poetry are but varied forms of uttered wisdom ...
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