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... readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilized community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improve- ments . They linger longest among the pea- santry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye ...
... readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilized community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improve- ments . They linger longest among the pea- santry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye ...
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... readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced , by ex- posing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two ...
... readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced , by ex- posing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two ...
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... reader of our age and country this incon- sistency is , at first , perfectly bewildering . The whole man seems to be an ... readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of ' human beings . Wise men ...
... reader of our age and country this incon- sistency is , at first , perfectly bewildering . The whole man seems to be an ... readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of ' human beings . Wise men ...
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... reader sometimes a little ludi- crous . Heroes and statesmen seem to lisp when they use it . It becomes Nicias incom ... readers to understand what we mean when we say that , in the Mandragola , Machiavelli has proved that he completely ...
... reader sometimes a little ludi- crous . Heroes and statesmen seem to lisp when they use it . It becomes Nicias incom ... readers to understand what we mean when we say that , in the Mandragola , Machiavelli has proved that he completely ...
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... reader of the Di- vine Comedy must be struck by the veneration which Dante expresses for writers far inferior to himself . He ... readers . Every schoolboy thumbs to pieces astronomical theories , than to those cremen the most wretched ...
... reader of the Di- vine Comedy must be struck by the veneration which Dante expresses for writers far inferior to himself . He ... readers . Every schoolboy thumbs to pieces astronomical theories , than to those cremen the most wretched ...
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