Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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Page 18
... thought to himself , as he went his way meditatively along the streets , the way things were man- aged in this really most incomprehensible of all incomprehensible worlds . Of course if Borroughdale , poor fellow , could find no better ...
... thought to himself , as he went his way meditatively along the streets , the way things were man- aged in this really most incomprehensible of all incomprehensible worlds . Of course if Borroughdale , poor fellow , could find no better ...
Page 24
... thought and feeling in the " Can- terbury Tales , " " The Faery Queen , " Shakespeare's plays , and " Paradise Lost , " is compared with the subject matter of Dryden and Pope's satires , of " The Van- ity of Human Wishes , " the " Elegy ...
... thought and feeling in the " Can- terbury Tales , " " The Faery Queen , " Shakespeare's plays , and " Paradise Lost , " is compared with the subject matter of Dryden and Pope's satires , of " The Van- ity of Human Wishes , " the " Elegy ...
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... thought and the mode of its expression , that arises from the false ideas of poetical diction which you have derived from your study of the poets . True , I might have said what I had to say in prose , but why should I be condemned for ...
... thought and the mode of its expression , that arises from the false ideas of poetical diction which you have derived from your study of the poets . True , I might have said what I had to say in prose , but why should I be condemned for ...
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... thoughts would be much more fittingly expressed in prose than they are in verse . Nor is this simply because the substance of them is philo . sophical and didactic , for so is the sub- stance of the " Essay on Man , " and yet the thought ...
... thoughts would be much more fittingly expressed in prose than they are in verse . Nor is this simply because the substance of them is philo . sophical and didactic , for so is the sub- stance of the " Essay on Man , " and yet the thought ...
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... thought how they were wasted , while they were shut up , but now it seems a terrible waste to think of them open and empty . " Mr. Sandison did not go very much into those deserted rooms . His life had grown into his parlor and his shop ...
... thought how they were wasted , while they were shut up , but now it seems a terrible waste to think of them open and empty . " Mr. Sandison did not go very much into those deserted rooms . His life had grown into his parlor and his shop ...
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