Impressions of Dante and of the New WorldW. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... any host of admiring friends has put pressure on me to collect mine . I take it that the real reason for these republications is always the same - a desire on the part of the writer to leave some print of his footsteps , however shallow ,
... any host of admiring friends has put pressure on me to collect mine . I take it that the real reason for these republications is always the same - a desire on the part of the writer to leave some print of his footsteps , however shallow ,
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... reason is not a very urgent one for readers , and may even prove to be slightly pathetic for the writer if it happens that no copies of his book are sold . One copy must always go to the British Museum , and that is a record of his ...
... reason is not a very urgent one for readers , and may even prove to be slightly pathetic for the writer if it happens that no copies of his book are sold . One copy must always go to the British Museum , and that is a record of his ...
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... reason or other , frequently breeds a peculiar intellectual and spiritual exclusiveness . But this is no new feeling . " If Dante mourns , there wheresoe'er he be That such high fancies of a soul so proud Should be laid open to the ...
... reason or other , frequently breeds a peculiar intellectual and spiritual exclusiveness . But this is no new feeling . " If Dante mourns , there wheresoe'er he be That such high fancies of a soul so proud Should be laid open to the ...
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... reasons which prompted him to write as he has written . " " There are authors so impersonal that we care not greatly to know them in their habits as they lived . Dante will be found to be , above all , personal . The little that is ...
... reasons which prompted him to write as he has written . " " There are authors so impersonal that we care not greatly to know them in their habits as they lived . Dante will be found to be , above all , personal . The little that is ...
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... reason of my death , what mortal thing Should then have drawn thee into its desire ? Thou oughtest not to have stooped thy pinion down- ward To wait for further blows , or little girl , Or other vanity of such brief use . If thou In ...
... reason of my death , what mortal thing Should then have drawn thee into its desire ? Thou oughtest not to have stooped thy pinion down- ward To wait for further blows , or little girl , Or other vanity of such brief use . If thou In ...
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