Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... tion to Calderon and Goethe . Translated from the German of Dr. HERMANN ULRICI . 1846. 3. - Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret . Trans lated from the German by JOHN OXENFORD . 2 Vols . 1850 . B reason of their peculiar ...
... tion to Calderon and Goethe . Translated from the German of Dr. HERMANN ULRICI . 1846. 3. - Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret . Trans lated from the German by JOHN OXENFORD . 2 Vols . 1850 . B reason of their peculiar ...
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... tion once conceived . From a jewelled ring on an alderman's finger to the most mountainous thought or deed of man or demon , nothing suggested itself that his speech could not envelope and enfold with ease . That excessive fluency which ...
... tion once conceived . From a jewelled ring on an alderman's finger to the most mountainous thought or deed of man or demon , nothing suggested itself that his speech could not envelope and enfold with ease . That excessive fluency which ...
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... tion to tread in the footsteps of that master , would have been death to all chance of a reputation among the highest . Great writers do not exclusively belong to the country of their birth ; the greatest of all are grouped together on ...
... tion to tread in the footsteps of that master , would have been death to all chance of a reputation among the highest . Great writers do not exclusively belong to the country of their birth ; the greatest of all are grouped together on ...
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... tion worth a single glance at the Thames or at the deer feeding in the forest , no sonnet worth the tear it was made to embalm . Literature was by no means to him , as it was to Goethe , the main interest of life ; nor was he a man so ...
... tion worth a single glance at the Thames or at the deer feeding in the forest , no sonnet worth the tear it was made to embalm . Literature was by no means to him , as it was to Goethe , the main interest of life ; nor was he a man so ...
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... tion of literary beauty and finish , and especially by his delight in sweet and melodious verse , to read and enjoy the poetry of those writers who are usually quoted as examples of the lusciousness and sensuousness of the poetic nature ...
... tion of literary beauty and finish , and especially by his delight in sweet and melodious verse , to read and enjoy the poetry of those writers who are usually quoted as examples of the lusciousness and sensuousness of the poetic nature ...
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