American Critical Essays: XIXth and XXth CenturiesNorman Foerster H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 520 pages |
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... impression of life : that , to begin with , constitutes its value , which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression . But there will be no intensity at all , and therefore no value , unless there is freedom to feel ...
... impression of life : that , to begin with , constitutes its value , which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression . But there will be no intensity at all , and therefore no value , unless there is freedom to feel ...
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... impression she had man- aged to give in one of her tales of the nature and way of life of the French Protestant youth . She had been asked where she learned so much about this recondite being , she had been congratu- lated on her ...
... impression she had man- aged to give in one of her tales of the nature and way of life of the French Protestant youth . She had been asked where she learned so much about this recondite being , she had been congratu- lated on her ...
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... impressions . Addison's words of praise and blame are few , literal , abstract , colourless . ' Just ' , ' natural ... impression vividly and imagina- tively . The history of literary criticism from Addi- son's day to our own is , if ...
... impressions . Addison's words of praise and blame are few , literal , abstract , colourless . ' Just ' , ' natural ... impression vividly and imagina- tively . The history of literary criticism from Addi- son's day to our own is , if ...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849 | 1 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882 | 29 |
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 18191891 | 57 |
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