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... present collection . And why , it may be asked , have I entered into this explana- tion respecting a matter so unimportant as the admission or exclusion of the poem in question ? I have done so , because I was anxious to avow that the ...
... present collection . And why , it may be asked , have I entered into this explana- tion respecting a matter so unimportant as the admission or exclusion of the poem in question ? I have done so , because I was anxious to avow that the ...
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... present age is inferior to the past neither in moral grandeur nor in spiritual health . He who possesses the discipline I speak of will content himself with remembering the judgments passed upon the present age , in this respect , by ...
... present age is inferior to the past neither in moral grandeur nor in spiritual health . He who possesses the discipline I speak of will content himself with remembering the judgments passed upon the present age , in this respect , by ...
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... present age has around it a copious and complex present , and behind it a copious and complex past ; it arises , because the present age exhibits to the individual man who contemplates it the spectacle of a vast multitude of facts ...
... present age has around it a copious and complex present , and behind it a copious and complex past ; it arises , because the present age exhibits to the individual man who contemplates it the spectacle of a vast multitude of facts ...
Contents
Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
England and the Italian Question | 65 |
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