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... nature of his He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . 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 ...
... nature of his He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . 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 ...
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... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the earning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to ...
... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the earning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to ...
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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 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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... natural bo- dies , untimely decrepitude was the penalty of precocious maturity . Their early greatness , and their ... nature pa cific . Where there are numerous slaves , every freeman is induced by the strongest motives to Pope or the ...
... natural bo- dies , untimely decrepitude was the penalty of precocious maturity . Their early greatness , and their ... nature pa cific . Where there are numerous slaves , every freeman is induced by the strongest motives to Pope or the ...
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