Impressions of Dante and of the New WorldW. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... readers — if I have any - or rather the attitude that I hope they will assume to me . " Don't shoot the essayist ; he's doing his level best . " I confess that it is difficult to find a valid excuse for republishing old magazine ...
... readers — if I have any - or rather the attitude that I hope they will assume to me . " Don't shoot the essayist ; he's doing his level best . " I confess that it is difficult to find a valid excuse for republishing old magazine ...
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... readers , and may even prove to be slightly pathetic for the writer if it happens that no copies of his book are ... reading- room in Bloomsbury and let the eye follow , till the head is dizzy , the huge circles of books , hundreds of ...
... readers , and may even prove to be slightly pathetic for the writer if it happens that no copies of his book are ... reading- room in Bloomsbury and let the eye follow , till the head is dizzy , the huge circles of books , hundreds of ...
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... readers , drawn in many cases from fresh social strata , approach a poet ( and particularly a poet whose writing is in a sense sacred ) in a different attitude from that of the select few to whom the poems have hitherto been a special ...
... readers , drawn in many cases from fresh social strata , approach a poet ( and particularly a poet whose writing is in a sense sacred ) in a different attitude from that of the select few to whom the poems have hitherto been a special ...
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... said in favour of the absence of notes . Adequate notes are necessarily so frequent , that the continuity of reading is too much interrupted for pleasure . Very few of the buyers of such a book are 4 DANTE FOR THE GENERAL .
... said in favour of the absence of notes . Adequate notes are necessarily so frequent , that the continuity of reading is too much interrupted for pleasure . Very few of the buyers of such a book are 4 DANTE FOR THE GENERAL .
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... reading of Dante gives him greater plea- sure than almost anything known to him in his own language , one of the answers must be , that in the matter of form the great master writing 600 years ago has spoken the last word . But this ...
... reading of Dante gives him greater plea- sure than almost anything known to him in his own language , one of the answers must be , that in the matter of form the great master writing 600 years ago has spoken the last word . But this ...
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