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... feel with satisfaction that I have done a good deal to extend the influence of the great minds of Germany and Italy among my compatriots . Of our English contemporaries , as yet but partially known here , I have written notices of ...
... feel with satisfaction that I have done a good deal to extend the influence of the great minds of Germany and Italy among my compatriots . Of our English contemporaries , as yet but partially known here , I have written notices of ...
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... feel ings , and from a mind that cares for nothing but what is permanent and essential . It should , then , have some merit , if only in the power of suggestion . A year or two hence , I hope to have more to say upon this topic , or the ...
... feel ings , and from a mind that cares for nothing but what is permanent and essential . It should , then , have some merit , if only in the power of suggestion . A year or two hence , I hope to have more to say upon this topic , or the ...
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... feel the need of a criterion , of a standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the other . We do not seek to degrade ...
... feel the need of a criterion , of a standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the other . We do not seek to degrade ...
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... feel and why . An object that defies my ut- most rigor of scrutiny is a new step on the stair I am making to the Olympian tables . POET . I think you will not know the gods when you get there , if I may judge from the cold presumption I ...
... feel and why . An object that defies my ut- most rigor of scrutiny is a new step on the stair I am making to the Olympian tables . POET . I think you will not know the gods when you get there , if I may judge from the cold presumption I ...
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... feel a higher power interposed , as much as I see that yonder tree is distinct from myself . Shall I repeat to you some poor verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in ...
... feel a higher power interposed , as much as I see that yonder tree is distinct from myself . Shall I repeat to you some poor verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in ...
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