Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... feelings and his imagination , vitalized all that it retained . Facts and persons of a past age were not to him hidden in the words which pretended to convey them to the mind , but were per- ceived as actual events and living beings ...
... feelings and his imagination , vitalized all that it retained . Facts and persons of a past age were not to him hidden in the words which pretended to convey them to the mind , but were per- ceived as actual events and living beings ...
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... feelings on the occasion : LINES WRITTEN IN AUGUST , 1847 . THE day of tumult , strife , defeat , was o'er ; Worn out with toil and noise and scorn and spleen , I slumbered , and in slumber saw once more A room in an old mansion , long ...
... feelings on the occasion : LINES WRITTEN IN AUGUST , 1847 . THE day of tumult , strife , defeat , was o'er ; Worn out with toil and noise and scorn and spleen , I slumbered , and in slumber saw once more A room in an old mansion , long ...
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... feelings which found little expression in his works . Among his intimate friends and relations he passed as one of the most affectionate of men , and his benevolence to unsuccessful artists and men of letters , absorbed no ...
... feelings which found little expression in his works . Among his intimate friends and relations he passed as one of the most affectionate of men , and his benevolence to unsuccessful artists and men of letters , absorbed no ...
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... feeling at all of the felicity of the style , but the real business of the his- torian is none the less performed , for we get a large view of facts in their true relations , and are enabled to take in the subject he treats of as a ...
... feeling at all of the felicity of the style , but the real business of the his- torian is none the less performed , for we get a large view of facts in their true relations , and are enabled to take in the subject he treats of as a ...
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... feelings of a people on the most momentous questions . It is , therefore , impos- sible that any society can be formed so impartial as to consider the literary character of an individual abstracted from the ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ...
... feelings of a people on the most momentous questions . It is , therefore , impos- sible that any society can be formed so impartial as to consider the literary character of an individual abstracted from the ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ...
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