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" Yes; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn from it should be present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. "
The Iowa Normal Monthly - Page 126
1881
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Choice Literature, Volume 4

Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 402 pages
...than inferior, sound rather than unsound or half sound, true rather than untrue or half true. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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The English Poets: Selections

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...thought of it as we proceed. Vi\ti YeS; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the ^7 really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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Essays in Criticism: Second Series

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two...
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The Pleasures of Life, Part 1 and 2

Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 296 pages
...Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not so limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my...
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The Pleasures of Life ...

Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 pages
...Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not so limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my...
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The Pleasures of Life: Part I and Part II.

Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...1 Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my...
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