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... tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in everything : " for not only can he read in the clear eyes of childhood a wisdom beyond what the little one is conscious of , touching the possibilities of ...
... tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in everything : " for not only can he read in the clear eyes of childhood a wisdom beyond what the little one is conscious of , touching the possibilities of ...
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... tongue , as to write without reference to the requirements of his audience . Their knowledge and sympathy constitute the circle within which he works . And it cannot be otherwise ; for the function of poetry is to teach and move men ...
... tongue , as to write without reference to the requirements of his audience . Their knowledge and sympathy constitute the circle within which he works . And it cannot be otherwise ; for the function of poetry is to teach and move men ...
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... tongues required the Spaniard and the Gaul , the African and Arab , who composed in them , to leave his nationality and early associations behind him , and write as if he were a Roman or a Greek : a problem this which increased in ...
... tongues required the Spaniard and the Gaul , the African and Arab , who composed in them , to leave his nationality and early associations behind him , and write as if he were a Roman or a Greek : a problem this which increased in ...
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... tongue - in the language he had learned from his mother's lips , and in which the joys , and hopes , and wants of his childhood were expressed . In a word , the poet and his language were left undisturbed in their intimacy . Such ...
... tongue - in the language he had learned from his mother's lips , and in which the joys , and hopes , and wants of his childhood were expressed . In a word , the poet and his language were left undisturbed in their intimacy . Such ...
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... tongue the rich treasures of Hebrew thought and poesy , at the precise period when it was alone capable of receiving and incorporating them , but also for its agency in the preservation of the language itself in all its elastic ...
... tongue the rich treasures of Hebrew thought and poesy , at the precise period when it was alone capable of receiving and incorporating them , but also for its agency in the preservation of the language itself in all its elastic ...
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