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... turn on action ; but when the contem- plative grows into a serious element of social occupation , then must poetry embrace this also : and then action ceases to be the sole type of the poetic , and Wordsworth's Excursion takes its ...
... turn on action ; but when the contem- plative grows into a serious element of social occupation , then must poetry embrace this also : and then action ceases to be the sole type of the poetic , and Wordsworth's Excursion takes its ...
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... turning to the secular , we may observe that our knowledge of Ancient Poetry is confined to that of Greece and Rome . Ancient poetry as picturing life may be summed in Homer . And it is a remarkable fact , that the circle of Homer and ...
... turning to the secular , we may observe that our knowledge of Ancient Poetry is confined to that of Greece and Rome . Ancient poetry as picturing life may be summed in Homer . And it is a remarkable fact , that the circle of Homer and ...
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... turn it , or obstruct its course , then are they disastrous in the extreme . They spoil what we have , and yield us nothing in its room ; for the thing they offer is divorced from all that made it of value at home . Such wholesale ...
... turn it , or obstruct its course , then are they disastrous in the extreme . They spoil what we have , and yield us nothing in its room ; for the thing they offer is divorced from all that made it of value at home . Such wholesale ...
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... turn , very gay and agreeable . So streams of smooth , well - polished , but de- plorably empty verse kept pouring with ceaseless flow , and might have continued who knows how long , to the drown- ing of all thought in that department ...
... turn , very gay and agreeable . So streams of smooth , well - polished , but de- plorably empty verse kept pouring with ceaseless flow , and might have continued who knows how long , to the drown- ing of all thought in that department ...
Strona 34
... turn the darkness into light , and win fresh kingdoms for the human race out of that boundless dark infinitude . Whatever enlarges the sphere of human happiness or human thought cannot but command our sympathy ; it is , therefore , from ...
... turn the darkness into light , and win fresh kingdoms for the human race out of that boundless dark infinitude . Whatever enlarges the sphere of human happiness or human thought cannot but command our sympathy ; it is , therefore , from ...
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