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... mind has often dwelt on what appeared to me a tendency in our nature to reproduce ourselves in our amusements - to carry the earnestness of serious occupation into that which we fly to as a relaxation from the serious . Nay , I am ...
... mind has often dwelt on what appeared to me a tendency in our nature to reproduce ourselves in our amusements - to carry the earnestness of serious occupation into that which we fly to as a relaxation from the serious . Nay , I am ...
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... mind , or resulting from his peculiar manner of thinking . Both classes of poetry exist in modern times , but the former alone , for the reasons stated , was possible in the early ages . And this same necessity of keeping within the ...
... mind , or resulting from his peculiar manner of thinking . Both classes of poetry exist in modern times , but the former alone , for the reasons stated , was possible in the early ages . And this same necessity of keeping within the ...
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... minds , accus- tomed therefore to pictures that reflected their own deeds and sentiments and experience , would reject ... mind while listening to the instructive lecture lately delivered in this room on the " Mountains and Valleys of ...
... minds , accus- tomed therefore to pictures that reflected their own deeds and sentiments and experience , would reject ... mind while listening to the instructive lecture lately delivered in this room on the " Mountains and Valleys of ...
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... standstill character is partly also its effect , viz . , that poetry gradually grew so inane , that original and stirring minds found it no element for them , and took to other pursuits - to politics , and 16 Ancient and Modern Poetry .
... standstill character is partly also its effect , viz . , that poetry gradually grew so inane , that original and stirring minds found it no element for them , and took to other pursuits - to politics , and 16 Ancient and Modern Poetry .
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... minds of either poet or audience , became a mere toy , devoid of earnestness and truth , and therefore all the earnest minds eschewed it . For the so - called poetry of those days had scarcely more real affinity to the thing it imitated ...
... minds of either poet or audience , became a mere toy , devoid of earnestness and truth , and therefore all the earnest minds eschewed it . For the so - called poetry of those days had scarcely more real affinity to the thing it imitated ...
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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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