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... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure seems ...
... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure seems ...
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... nature of their intellec- doxical as the remark may appear , that no tual operations , a change by which science poet has ever had to struggle with more un- gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is ne- favourable circumstances than ...
... nature of their intellec- doxical as the remark may appear , that no tual operations , a change by which science poet has ever had to struggle with more un- gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is ne- favourable circumstances than ...
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... nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the ... natural that the literature of ture of modern Italy . But he did not feel for Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental it ...
... nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the ... natural that the literature of ture of modern Italy . But he did not feel for Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental it ...
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... nature is victorious over the ex- tremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
... nature is victorious over the ex- tremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
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... nature of the devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her ...
... nature of the devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her ...
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