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Page 85
... mind . It is we who are Hamlet . This play has a prophetic truth , which is above that of history . Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishaps or those of others : whoever has borne about with him the clouded ...
... mind . It is we who are Hamlet . This play has a prophetic truth , which is above that of history . Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishaps or those of others : whoever has borne about with him the clouded ...
Page 151
... mind in poetical composition ; but if his education , his reading , and his society supply him with an abundant store of images and emotions , he will probably think but little of those internal resources , and feed his mind contentedly ...
... mind in poetical composition ; but if his education , his reading , and his society supply him with an abundant store of images and emotions , he will probably think but little of those internal resources , and feed his mind contentedly ...
Page 215
... mind , That , like Heav'n's image , in the smiling brook , Celestial peace was pictur'd in her look . Hers was the brow , in trials unperplex'd , That cheer'd the sad and tranquilliz'd the vex'd . She studied not the meanest to eclipse ...
... mind , That , like Heav'n's image , in the smiling brook , Celestial peace was pictur'd in her look . Hers was the brow , in trials unperplex'd , That cheer'd the sad and tranquilliz'd the vex'd . She studied not the meanest to eclipse ...
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