Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... mind , by an act of meditation , can make any subject , how- ever trivial , poetical . But his practice perceiving how greatly he was influenced proves that a poet only writes poetically ple of Cowper seems not to have been by Milton ...
... mind , by an act of meditation , can make any subject , how- ever trivial , poetical . But his practice perceiving how greatly he was influenced proves that a poet only writes poetically ple of Cowper seems not to have been by Milton ...
Page 650
... mind to mind with an intelligent equal , but that he is dealing with a tumult of likes and dislikes , hopes and fears , stock - jobbing intrigues , mis- sionary interests , quidnuncs , newspapers -dealing , in short , with ignorance ...
... mind to mind with an intelligent equal , but that he is dealing with a tumult of likes and dislikes , hopes and fears , stock - jobbing intrigues , mis- sionary interests , quidnuncs , newspapers -dealing , in short , with ignorance ...
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... mind , age takes away much more that we ought to wish to lose , than it takes of what we want to keep . It takes away prejudice , and pas sion , and irritable self - consciousness . It takes away that which misleads and per- verts the ...
... mind , age takes away much more that we ought to wish to lose , than it takes of what we want to keep . It takes away prejudice , and pas sion , and irritable self - consciousness . It takes away that which misleads and per- verts the ...
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