The Critical Temper: Victorian literature and American literatureMartin Tucker Ungar, 1969 - American literature |
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... Present has continued to exert an influence from 1843 to 1923. " There is nothing like it , " said Arthur Hugh Clough . Its eloquence was partly re- sponsible for Kingsley's novel , Yeast . It roused thousands of Englishmen from inertia ...
... Present has continued to exert an influence from 1843 to 1923. " There is nothing like it , " said Arthur Hugh Clough . Its eloquence was partly re- sponsible for Kingsley's novel , Yeast . It roused thousands of Englishmen from inertia ...
Page 145
... present in the light of the future , as befitted the apostle of spiritual evolution . Nor was his vision of an evolving society , an evolving race , restricted to such narrow objects as women , for instance , have recently attained . He ...
... present in the light of the future , as befitted the apostle of spiritual evolution . Nor was his vision of an evolving society , an evolving race , restricted to such narrow objects as women , for instance , have recently attained . He ...
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... present age , or any present age , has a tendency to look down from the fancied heights of sophistication upon the ages preceding it , and to judge them as stepping stones , or less than stepping stones . In our cock- sure self ...
... present age , or any present age , has a tendency to look down from the fancied heights of sophistication upon the ages preceding it , and to judge them as stepping stones , or less than stepping stones . In our cock- sure self ...
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Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 3 |
Walter Bagehot 18261877 | 16 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18061861 | 30 |
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