Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... thought and feeling in good prose or beautiful poetry . It gives us the thoughts of the great men of a nation - not those great in rank , or in their opportunities of acquiring knowledge , but great in that Heaven - given power which it ...
... thought and feeling in good prose or beautiful poetry . It gives us the thoughts of the great men of a nation - not those great in rank , or in their opportunities of acquiring knowledge , but great in that Heaven - given power which it ...
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... thought and of bright imagination . As time went on , writers thought too much of the fantastic style or form , and too little of the thought which should underlie that Ideas were sacrificed to some new and far - fetched mode of ...
... thought and of bright imagination . As time went on , writers thought too much of the fantastic style or form , and too little of the thought which should underlie that Ideas were sacrificed to some new and far - fetched mode of ...
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... thought , but of expression , which make us forget the obscurity and harshness of much of his work . Above all , he is a great philosophical teacher , and as such has left a strong impress upon the world of thought . His gifted wife ...
... thought , but of expression , which make us forget the obscurity and harshness of much of his work . Above all , he is a great philosophical teacher , and as such has left a strong impress upon the world of thought . His gifted wife ...
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