Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... give up ; or lest , if our imaginations should dare to figure aught too exact and familiar regarding the traits and motions of so royal a spirit , the question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the ...
... give up ; or lest , if our imaginations should dare to figure aught too exact and familiar regarding the traits and motions of so royal a spirit , the question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the ...
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... Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world , with viler worms to dwell . " - Sonnet 71 . " The wrinkles , which thy glass will truly show , Of mouthed graves will give thee memory ; Thou , by thy dial's shady stealth ...
... Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world , with viler worms to dwell . " - Sonnet 71 . " The wrinkles , which thy glass will truly show , Of mouthed graves will give thee memory ; Thou , by thy dial's shady stealth ...
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... give an opinion will reply in the negative . A glance at the external circumstances of Goethe's life alone ( and what a contrast there is between the abundance of biographic material respecting Goethe and the scantiness of our ...
... give an opinion will reply in the negative . A glance at the external circumstances of Goethe's life alone ( and what a contrast there is between the abundance of biographic material respecting Goethe and the scantiness of our ...
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... gives me the least uneasiness , for I am fully convinced that our spirit is a being of a nature quite indestructible ... give me another form of existence when the present one can no longer sustain my spirit . " - Ibid . vol . ii . pp ...
... gives me the least uneasiness , for I am fully convinced that our spirit is a being of a nature quite indestructible ... give me another form of existence when the present one can no longer sustain my spirit . " - Ibid . vol . ii . pp ...
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... give yourself up to your impressions ; allow yourself to be delighted , moved , elevated - n -nay , instructed and inspired by something great ; but do not imagine all is vanity , if it is not abstract thought and idea .. It was not in ...
... give yourself up to your impressions ; allow yourself to be delighted , moved , elevated - n -nay , instructed and inspired by something great ; but do not imagine all is vanity , if it is not abstract thought and idea .. It was not in ...
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