History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1 |
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... sense ; France , with her Parisian culture , with her drawing - room manners , with her untiring analysis of characters and actions , her irony so ready to hit upon a weakness , her finesse so practised in the discrimination of shades ...
... sense ; France , with her Parisian culture , with her drawing - room manners , with her untiring analysis of characters and actions , her irony so ready to hit upon a weakness , her finesse so practised in the discrimination of shades ...
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... sense , science to a collection of formulas , classifications , utili- tarian mnemonics , and the whole intellect takes a positive bent . If , on the contrary , the general representation in which the conception results is a poetical ...
... sense , science to a collection of formulas , classifications , utili- tarian mnemonics , and the whole intellect takes a positive bent . If , on the contrary , the general representation in which the conception results is a poetical ...
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... sense , according as the distinct effects of race , circum- stance , and epoch combine to add the one to the other , or to annul one another . Thus are explained the long impotences and the brilliant triumphs which make their appearance ...
... sense , according as the distinct effects of race , circum- stance , and epoch combine to add the one to the other , or to annul one another . Thus are explained the long impotences and the brilliant triumphs which make their appearance ...
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... senses become blunted , the muscles are braced , the will vigorous . In every country the body of man is rooted deep into the soil of nature ; and in this instance still deeper , because , being uncultivated , he is less removed from ...
... senses become blunted , the muscles are braced , the will vigorous . In every country the body of man is rooted deep into the soil of nature ; and in this instance still deeper , because , being uncultivated , he is less removed from ...
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... sense cannot touch , but which reverence alone can appreciate ; and when , later on , the legends define and alter this vague divination of natural powers , an idea remains at the bottom of this chaos of giant - dreams ; that the world ...
... sense cannot touch , but which reverence alone can appreciate ; and when , later on , the legends define and alter this vague divination of natural powers , an idea remains at the bottom of this chaos of giant - dreams ; that the world ...
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