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Page 17
... understanding without awakening the feelings of the heart ; still there was a long and blessed interval , dur- ing which my natural faculties were allowed to expand , and my original tendencies to deve- lope themselves : my fancy , and ...
... understanding without awakening the feelings of the heart ; still there was a long and blessed interval , dur- ing which my natural faculties were allowed to expand , and my original tendencies to deve- lope themselves : my fancy , and ...
Page 18
... Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , for some years , was greatly extolled , not only by the reading public in general , but even by those , whose genius and natural robustness of understanding ena- bled them afterwards to 18.
... Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , for some years , was greatly extolled , not only by the reading public in general , but even by those , whose genius and natural robustness of understanding ena- bled them afterwards to 18.
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... understanding ena- bled them afterwards to act foremost.in dis- sipating these " painted mists " that occasionally rise from the marshes at the foot of Parnassus . During my first Cambridge vacation , I assisted a friend in a ...
... understanding ena- bled them afterwards to act foremost.in dis- sipating these " painted mists " that occasionally rise from the marshes at the foot of Parnassus . During my first Cambridge vacation , I assisted a friend in a ...
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... understand , and caracatured what they were unable to imitate , And , that no doubt might be left concerning the persons alluded to , the writer annexes the names of Miss BAILIE , W. SOUTHEY , WORDSWORTH and COLERIDGE . For that which ...
... understand , and caracatured what they were unable to imitate , And , that no doubt might be left concerning the persons alluded to , the writer annexes the names of Miss BAILIE , W. SOUTHEY , WORDSWORTH and COLERIDGE . For that which ...
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... , in order to constitute a just imitation , existing here merely in caricature , detracts from the libeller's heart , without adding an iota to the credit of his understanding . chus and the frogs in Aristophanes ; when the former 79.
... , in order to constitute a just imitation , existing here merely in caricature , detracts from the libeller's heart , without adding an iota to the credit of his understanding . chus and the frogs in Aristophanes ; when the former 79.
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