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... ; nay , its fundamental interest originally lay but in that ; for however we may be content for a moment to look at Poesy on its recreative side , we do it wrong to stop at that . Poetry is Ancient and Modern Poetry . 3.
... ; nay , its fundamental interest originally lay but in that ; for however we may be content for a moment to look at Poesy on its recreative side , we do it wrong to stop at that . Poetry is Ancient and Modern Poetry . 3.
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... interest , and none can interest that fails to answer these conditions . Hence , of the different kinds of poetry , all are not calculated to affect all men , nor in all ages . Every popular poem has answered these requisites , and has ...
... interest , and none can interest that fails to answer these conditions . Hence , of the different kinds of poetry , all are not calculated to affect all men , nor in all ages . Every popular poem has answered these requisites , and has ...
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... interest by themes which engaged the auditors , not for being stately and august , but for dealing in what concerned them - for being about what they were , and what was done , and thought , and felt , and hoped , by themselves or their ...
... interest by themes which engaged the auditors , not for being stately and august , but for dealing in what concerned them - for being about what they were , and what was done , and thought , and felt , and hoped , by themselves or their ...
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... interest . + Every great social fact must have resulted from many causes , some of them perhaps inscrutable , but which rally round and are ancillary to the more prominent ones , all concurring to one result . The leading causes ...
... interest . + Every great social fact must have resulted from many causes , some of them perhaps inscrutable , but which rally round and are ancillary to the more prominent ones , all concurring to one result . The leading causes ...
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... interest- ing subject and of ample scope , but of the points which present themselves we must be content with touching on two woman's social position , and the influence of Chris- tianity . Of the first it will suffice to observe , that ...
... interest- ing subject and of ample scope , but of the points which present themselves we must be content with touching on two woman's social position , and the influence of Chris- tianity . Of the first it will suffice to observe , that ...
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Seite 33 - When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Seite 20 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
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