Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... imagination heated , and fall insensibly into a similar turn of thought ; at the same time that those things which you may possibly have overlooked in a common way of read- ing , cannot escape you in translating : and this method will ...
... imagination heated , and fall insensibly into a similar turn of thought ; at the same time that those things which you may possibly have overlooked in a common way of read- ing , cannot escape you in translating : and this method will ...
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... imagination ; it enters the chamber of intellect , reposes itself upon the couch of memory , and there congener- ates the eternal truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a com- modity of doctrine exists in books ; how ...
... imagination ; it enters the chamber of intellect , reposes itself upon the couch of memory , and there congener- ates the eternal truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a com- modity of doctrine exists in books ; how ...
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... imagining and attempting to deprive the king of his title as Supreme Head of the Church , " etc. " The usual punishment for treason was com- muted , as it had been with Fisher , to death upon the scaffold ; and this last favour was ...
... imagining and attempting to deprive the king of his title as Supreme Head of the Church , " etc. " The usual punishment for treason was com- muted , as it had been with Fisher , to death upon the scaffold ; and this last favour was ...
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... imagination ; and , quite contrary to some others , I should , peradventure , rather choose to be the second I would neither dispute a miserable un- or third in Perigourd than the first in Paris . known with a nobleman's porter , nor ...
... imagination ; and , quite contrary to some others , I should , peradventure , rather choose to be the second I would neither dispute a miserable un- or third in Perigourd than the first in Paris . known with a nobleman's porter , nor ...
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... imaginations of more , among all conditions of men throughout Christendom , than any other of the creations of human talent . The greatest of the great poets— Homer , Dante , Shakespeare , Milton - have no doubt risen to loftier heights ...
... imaginations of more , among all conditions of men throughout Christendom , than any other of the creations of human talent . The greatest of the great poets— Homer , Dante , Shakespeare , Milton - have no doubt risen to loftier heights ...
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