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... chapter is en- titled An Essay to prove that an author will write better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he treats . The discussion is altogether irrelevant ; that is what the Gentle Reader likes . THE GENTLE READER.
... chapter is en- titled An Essay to prove that an author will write better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he treats . The discussion is altogether irrelevant ; that is what the Gentle Reader likes . THE GENTLE READER.
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... altogether gratuitous . When I become attached to a young lady in fic- tion she always appears to me to be an extraor- dinarily lovely creature . It's sheer impertinence for the author to intrude , every now and then , just to call my ...
... altogether gratuitous . When I become attached to a young lady in fic- tion she always appears to me to be an extraor- dinarily lovely creature . It's sheer impertinence for the author to intrude , every now and then , just to call my ...
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... altogether . Why should they spend valuable time in trying to unravel the meaning of lines which were in- vented to baffle them ? There are plenty of things we do not understand , without going out of our way to find them . Then , as ...
... altogether . Why should they spend valuable time in trying to unravel the meaning of lines which were in- vented to baffle them ? There are plenty of things we do not understand , without going out of our way to find them . Then , as ...
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... altogether different function from prose . It is not to be appreciated by the prosaic understand- ing ; unless , indeed , that awkward faculty be treated to some Delsartean decomposing exer cises to get rid 40 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
... altogether different function from prose . It is not to be appreciated by the prosaic understand- ing ; unless , indeed , that awkward faculty be treated to some Delsartean decomposing exer cises to get rid 40 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
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... altogether new set of conditions . We are called upon to swap horses while crossing the stream . It is a method which the serious minded person does not approve . While argu- ing the matter he is unhorsed , and finds himself floundering ...
... altogether new set of conditions . We are called upon to swap horses while crossing the stream . It is a method which the serious minded person does not approve . While argu- ing the matter he is unhorsed , and finds himself floundering ...
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Page 212 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 48 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 48 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 204 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 312 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 207 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Page 314 - Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 154 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 313 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 62 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.