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There is no divine truth but hath much celestial fire in it from the spirit of truth : nor no irreligious untruth without its proportion of anti - fire from the spirit of error to contradict it the zeal of the one , the virulency of the ...
There is no divine truth but hath much celestial fire in it from the spirit of truth : nor no irreligious untruth without its proportion of anti - fire from the spirit of error to contradict it the zeal of the one , the virulency of the ...
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It has been assumed , tacitly and avowedly , directly and indirectly , that the ultimate object of all Poetry is Truth . Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be ...
It has been assumed , tacitly and avowedly , directly and indirectly , that the ultimate object of all Poetry is Truth . Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be ...
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We love eloquence for its own sake , and not for any truth which it may utter , or any heroism it may inspire . Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free - trade and of freedom , of union , and of rectitude ...
We love eloquence for its own sake , and not for any truth which it may utter , or any heroism it may inspire . Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free - trade and of freedom , of union , and of rectitude ...
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| Title | American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 1 American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Compiled by | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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