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... of any kind ; he certainly hasn't the kind of energy of mind needed for sustained analytic and discursive thinking . ... and why it is so deplorable that literary students should be required to take that kind of thing seriously ...
... of any kind ; he certainly hasn't the kind of energy of mind needed for sustained analytic and discursive thinking . ... and why it is so deplorable that literary students should be required to take that kind of thing seriously ...
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141-43 GENERAL It is the peculiar merit of his verse that it really gives the impression of childlikeness and a kind of dewy freshness . One feels this in a thousand places — in such lines as those to an infant , which Swinburne regards ...
141-43 GENERAL It is the peculiar merit of his verse that it really gives the impression of childlikeness and a kind of dewy freshness . One feels this in a thousand places — in such lines as those to an infant , which Swinburne regards ...
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But I am not so much concerned with the degree of his greatness as with its kind ; and its kind is manifested more clearly in his Letters than in his poems . ... The Letters are certainly the most notable and the most important ever ...
But I am not so much concerned with the degree of his greatness as with its kind ; and its kind is manifested more clearly in his Letters than in his poems . ... The Letters are certainly the most notable and the most important ever ...
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William Cowper 17311800 | 41 |
David Garrick 17171779 | 80 |
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