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... truth at the bottom of this query , a writer should not be too strictly chal- lenged in christening his book . A name to call it by will suffice , as with ourselves , who rarely rejoice in characteristic appellatives . Messrs . Black ...
... truth at the bottom of this query , a writer should not be too strictly chal- lenged in christening his book . A name to call it by will suffice , as with ourselves , who rarely rejoice in characteristic appellatives . Messrs . Black ...
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... truth for its basis , however admitting fiction in its form : not individual truth , but specific truth , like the artist's tree in the landscape , which is not individually true , as not being the portrait of any particular tree , but ...
... truth for its basis , however admitting fiction in its form : not individual truth , but specific truth , like the artist's tree in the landscape , which is not individually true , as not being the portrait of any particular tree , but ...
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... truth is , that the verses deal , though clumsily , with ideas familiar and dear to them , and on which their souls dwell with delight . It is a rude hand and uncouth , that , nevertheless , unlocks a well - spring whence freely flow ...
... truth is , that the verses deal , though clumsily , with ideas familiar and dear to them , and on which their souls dwell with delight . It is a rude hand and uncouth , that , nevertheless , unlocks a well - spring whence freely flow ...
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... 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 , than modern Christians ' kissing under the mistletoe has to the Druidical ...
... 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 , than modern Christians ' kissing under the mistletoe has to the Druidical ...
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... truths a popular possession , and pouring into our beautiful tongue the rich treasures of Hebrew thought and poesy , at the precise period when it was alone capable of receiving and incorporating them , but also for its agency in the ...
... truths a popular possession , and pouring into our beautiful tongue the rich treasures of Hebrew thought and poesy , at the precise period when it was alone capable of receiving and incorporating them , but also for its agency in the ...
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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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Seite 221 - Preserving all the piety of George Herbert, they have less of his quaint and fantastic turns, with a much larger infusion of poetic feeling and expression.
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