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... rhymes and echoes that pole makes With pole. Imaginative minds cling to their images, and do not wish them rasthr rendered into prose reality,- as children resent your show-' ing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood ...
... rhymes and echoes that pole makes With pole. Imaginative minds cling to their images, and do not wish them rasthr rendered into prose reality,- as children resent your show-' ing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood ...
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... rhymed English, to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.' But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry. For they relish fEsop,—cannot forget him, or not use him; bring them Homer's Iliad, and they like ...
... rhymed English, to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.' But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry. For they relish fEsop,—cannot forget him, or not use him; bring them Homer's Iliad, and they like ...
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... rhyme. These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience. He has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto. Now at this rare elevation above ...
... rhyme. These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience. He has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto. Now at this rare elevation above ...
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... rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear. Shadows please us as still finer rhymes. Architecture gives the like pleasure by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade, in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by ...
... rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear. Shadows please us as still finer rhymes. Architecture gives the like pleasure by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade, in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by ...
Page 46
... rhyme to remember them better, as so many proverbs may show. Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,— " Thirty days hath September," etc.;— or of the Zodiac, but for " The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins ...
... rhyme to remember them better, as so many proverbs may show. Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,— " Thirty days hath September," etc.;— or of the Zodiac, but for " The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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