The Journal of English Studies, Volume 2H. Marshall & Son., 1913 |
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... beauty of the lesser lights to a monotonous worship of the sun and moon . These " common people of the skies " may have some special charm of character or association . We remember that one of those whom Charles Lamb would have been ...
... beauty of the lesser lights to a monotonous worship of the sun and moon . These " common people of the skies " may have some special charm of character or association . We remember that one of those whom Charles Lamb would have been ...
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... beauty were revealed in equal paths , when the terrible and the entrancing walked hand in hand . " Landor would earn a brief mention for the sake not only of Rose Aylmer but of Bleak House ; and Leigh Hunt might well have a corner by ...
... beauty were revealed in equal paths , when the terrible and the entrancing walked hand in hand . " Landor would earn a brief mention for the sake not only of Rose Aylmer but of Bleak House ; and Leigh Hunt might well have a corner by ...
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... composition is most striking . De Quincey is an admirable prose author to study ; the imagination , the obvious beauty of style and rhythm , the vividness , the interest of his subjects all produce 34 THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES.
... composition is most striking . De Quincey is an admirable prose author to study ; the imagination , the obvious beauty of style and rhythm , the vividness , the interest of his subjects all produce 34 THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES.
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... beauty in prose must come unsought , is excellent ; but a law needs demonstrating . These writers had a wrong way of looking at things ; they saw things through words , which is not seeing at all . Their too - facile memories let loose ...
... beauty in prose must come unsought , is excellent ; but a law needs demonstrating . These writers had a wrong way of looking at things ; they saw things through words , which is not seeing at all . Their too - facile memories let loose ...
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... beauty , there was produced an academic exercise that might still be fitly prescribed for academic perusal , but one that misses anything like theoretic finality even on its own plane , E and is very imperfectly fitted to guide an ...
... beauty , there was produced an academic exercise that might still be fitly prescribed for academic perusal , but one that misses anything like theoretic finality even on its own plane , E and is very imperfectly fitted to guide an ...
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Page 171 - Now if Nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which...
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