Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great moments of history , in the ...
... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great moments of history , in the ...
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... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concern- ing ...
... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concern- ing ...
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... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in ...
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... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism ...
... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism ...
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... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
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