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... feel much more that our gifts , and leisure , and facilities for acquiring and imparting know- ledge , are not our own , but belong to God and our country , if we can do good with any of them . All of us have a common interest in giving ...
... feel much more that our gifts , and leisure , and facilities for acquiring and imparting know- ledge , are not our own , but belong to God and our country , if we can do good with any of them . All of us have a common interest in giving ...
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... feel , " but always " experience a sensation ; " never " live " anywhere , but always " reside ; " never " eat , " but always " partake of refreshment . " Here is a bit of rural description which I cut out from a country periodical the ...
... feel , " but always " experience a sensation ; " never " live " anywhere , but always " reside ; " never " eat , " but always " partake of refreshment . " Here is a bit of rural description which I cut out from a country periodical the ...
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... feel this in our own day ; witness the universal verdict of disapprobation which has been passed on the daguerreotype , wonderful as it is in its proper place , when it pretends to the rank of a work of art . The poet is subject to the ...
... feel this in our own day ; witness the universal verdict of disapprobation which has been passed on the daguerreotype , wonderful as it is in its proper place , when it pretends to the rank of a work of art . The poet is subject to the ...
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... feel rather than remark , when we sit and gaze at some lovely landscape as the shade gathers onward , and the glow in the west fades away . But the poet is not merely a painter . He must not only imitate , nor only glorify nature . His ...
... feel rather than remark , when we sit and gaze at some lovely landscape as the shade gathers onward , and the glow in the west fades away . But the poet is not merely a painter . He must not only imitate , nor only glorify nature . His ...
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... the highest that is human and the lowest that is divine , -what depths does all this reveal to us in the soul of the poet who could thus write ! And how do we feel conscious that we are reading 24 ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE POETRY .
... the highest that is human and the lowest that is divine , -what depths does all this reveal to us in the soul of the poet who could thus write ! And how do we feel conscious that we are reading 24 ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE POETRY .
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