Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... thought , caught as it flew , was entered in his commonplace - book . These loose notes of Rousseau afford a curious insight into his taste in composition . You find him perpetually retrenching epithets - reducing his thoughts to their ...
... thought , caught as it flew , was entered in his commonplace - book . These loose notes of Rousseau afford a curious insight into his taste in composition . You find him perpetually retrenching epithets - reducing his thoughts to their ...
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... thought . His love of poetry , how- ever , never suffered abatement , and as a maker , " he was improv- ing to the very last . To unfaded freshness of heart he was adding riper thought : such was one of the prime blessings of his pure ...
... thought . His love of poetry , how- ever , never suffered abatement , and as a maker , " he was improv- ing to the very last . To unfaded freshness of heart he was adding riper thought : such was one of the prime blessings of his pure ...
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... thought in exchange for the great thought that has produced them ( and then the reader is but like the scrubby Diomed giving his brass arms for the golden harness of splendid Sarpedon ) , Margaret's earnest attention to Mrs. Browning ...
... thought in exchange for the great thought that has produced them ( and then the reader is but like the scrubby Diomed giving his brass arms for the golden harness of splendid Sarpedon ) , Margaret's earnest attention to Mrs. Browning ...
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