The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... imagining more actively , he has been prepared for feeling more finely , for vishing more worthily , perhaps for resolving more firmly . Yet there are kinds of literary composition which raise us so very little above the dust we live in ...
... imagining more actively , he has been prepared for feeling more finely , for vishing more worthily , perhaps for resolving more firmly . Yet there are kinds of literary composition which raise us so very little above the dust we live in ...
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... imaginative and spirited , to invest with poetical and mythical glory the legends of generations which had passed away long before the poet's time . 3. The literature of the Cymric Celts becomes an object of lively interest , through ...
... imaginative and spirited , to invest with poetical and mythical glory the legends of generations which had passed away long before the poet's time . 3. The literature of the Cymric Celts becomes an object of lively interest , through ...
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... imaginative pleasure , which is characteristic of poetry , they aim also at that communi- cation of instruction , and that passionate excitement , which in more refined times are sought chiefly through the medium of prose . The artless ...
... imaginative pleasure , which is characteristic of poetry , they aim also at that communi- cation of instruction , and that passionate excitement , which in more refined times are sought chiefly through the medium of prose . The artless ...
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... imaginative and impassioned in tone , for ages be- fore they become essentially meditative or didactic . Such has been , in ... imagination which reigns in the sagas of the North , and the dramatic life which animates , everywhere , the ...
... imaginative and impassioned in tone , for ages be- fore they become essentially meditative or didactic . Such has been , in ... imagination which reigns in the sagas of the North , and the dramatic life which animates , everywhere , the ...
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