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... , 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 .
... , 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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... tell of its components . In treating the powers of the English lan- guage in prose and verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has ...
... tell of its components . In treating the powers of the English lan- guage in prose and verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has ...
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... tell us , or at least give us cause to pre- sume , in what his main strength lies , and in what he is deficient . " The same method of observation , let me add , will not unfrequently furnish us with a key to the cha- racters of other ...
... tell us , or at least give us cause to pre- sume , in what his main strength lies , and in what he is deficient . " The same method of observation , let me add , will not unfrequently furnish us with a key to the cha- racters of other ...
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... tell ; On the other side , it seem'd to be Of the huge , broad - breasted old oak - tree . The night is chill , the forest bare : Is it the wind that moaneth bleak . There is not wind enough in the air To move 114 LECTURE THIRD .
... tell ; On the other side , it seem'd to be Of the huge , broad - breasted old oak - tree . The night is chill , the forest bare : Is it the wind that moaneth bleak . There is not wind enough in the air To move 114 LECTURE THIRD .
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... telling him I had cited the pas- sage in a literary connection , as a curious parallelism with Chaucer , he expressed much surprise , and begged me to refer to the passage . It was all new to him . " - MS . Letter . A curious chapter on ...
... telling him I had cited the pas- sage in a literary connection , as a curious parallelism with Chaucer , he expressed much surprise , and begged me to refer to the passage . It was all new to him . " - MS . Letter . A curious chapter on ...
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