Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... passion , the more impressive because it is never allowed to exhale in mere rhetoric . Swift's success , the dauntless front which he had shown to the oppressor , made him the idol of his countrymen . A Drapier's Club was formed in his ...
... passion , the more impressive because it is never allowed to exhale in mere rhetoric . Swift's success , the dauntless front which he had shown to the oppressor , made him the idol of his countrymen . A Drapier's Club was formed in his ...
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... passion the glow of which makes other passions look cold , as it is said that some bright lights cause other illuminating objects to cast a shadow . Yet his face is absolutely grave , and he details his plan as calmly as a modern ...
... passion the glow of which makes other passions look cold , as it is said that some bright lights cause other illuminating objects to cast a shadow . Yet his face is absolutely grave , and he details his plan as calmly as a modern ...
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... passion for meta- physical studies . If we except his System of the Heavens , which hints metaphysical ideas in the form of a splendid cosmological vision , and his Palimpsest of the Human Brain , which is full of psychological ...
... passion for meta- physical studies . If we except his System of the Heavens , which hints metaphysical ideas in the form of a splendid cosmological vision , and his Palimpsest of the Human Brain , which is full of psychological ...
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... passions , desires , and genial emotions . Men have so little reflected on the higher functions of literature as to find it a paradox if one should describe it as a mean or subordinate purpose of books to give information . But this is ...
... passions , desires , and genial emotions . Men have so little reflected on the higher functions of literature as to find it a paradox if one should describe it as a mean or subordinate purpose of books to give information . But this is ...
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... dissolve the soul in a passionate sense of loveliness and divinity , " the world has contrived to forget . The names of the books and of the writers are buried in as deep an oblivion as the 66 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
... dissolve the soul in a passionate sense of loveliness and divinity , " the world has contrived to forget . The names of the books and of the writers are buried in as deep an oblivion as the 66 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
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