The Literary World, Volumen18S.R. Crocker, 1887 |
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... spirit , while the second personages , statesmen , and courtiers , men of essay on the idea of personality in Brown ... spirit in poetry Professor Corson devotes his first introduc- tory essay . The value of the distinction may be seen ...
... spirit , while the second personages , statesmen , and courtiers , men of essay on the idea of personality in Brown ... spirit in poetry Professor Corson devotes his first introduc- tory essay . The value of the distinction may be seen ...
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... spirit and in form , than the talent of their intermediate brother Charles . " Sir Francis says little about his tenure of the Poetry Professorship in Oxford , where he succeeded Matthew Arnold , but he de- fends Macaulay's verses with ...
... spirit and in form , than the talent of their intermediate brother Charles . " Sir Francis says little about his tenure of the Poetry Professorship in Oxford , where he succeeded Matthew Arnold , but he de- fends Macaulay's verses with ...
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... spirit is frankly Tennysonian in spite of the embittered tone with which it is permeated . To us it seems like the roar of a sick lion - disjointed , hollow , inspired by an impotent fury , yet leonine after all . Through its broken ...
... spirit is frankly Tennysonian in spite of the embittered tone with which it is permeated . To us it seems like the roar of a sick lion - disjointed , hollow , inspired by an impotent fury , yet leonine after all . Through its broken ...
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... spirit and Oriental flavor of the original . At the close of the vol- ume , the story of Sohráb is given in full in sonorous pentameters . The book is one the student of literature cannot afford to neglect . [ New York : F. Warne & Co ...
... spirit and Oriental flavor of the original . At the close of the vol- ume , the story of Sohráb is given in full in sonorous pentameters . The book is one the student of literature cannot afford to neglect . [ New York : F. Warne & Co ...
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... spirit as well as diligent in business . to Cavendish , the pack of fifty - two was in performing a few easy tricks with cards , He was a religious man . His integrity was formed by a copious pruning of this Vene- and in fortune ...
... spirit as well as diligent in business . to Cavendish , the pack of fifty - two was in performing a few easy tricks with cards , He was a religious man . His integrity was formed by a copious pruning of this Vene- and in fortune ...
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Página 164 - AN INDEX TO THE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE. Applicable to all editions of Shakspere, and giving reference, by topics, to notable passages and significant expressions ; brief histories of the plays ; geographical names and historic incidents ; mention of all characters and sketches of important ones ; together with explanations of allusions and obscure and obsolete words and phrases. By EVANGELINE M. O'CONNOR.
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