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... kind is to dispraise what is bad , and every honour done to men worthy of honour is an insult to men who are powerless to confer it and hopeless to receive . To any who may think it presumptuous for a labourer in one field of art to ...
... kind is to dispraise what is bad , and every honour done to men worthy of honour is an insult to men who are powerless to confer it and hopeless to receive . To any who may think it presumptuous for a labourer in one field of art to ...
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... kind whose bond of union should be a compact of detraction , a confederacy of malignities , an alliance for the defamation of men more honoured than its members . On the other hand , it may be reasonably assumed , or at least it may ...
... kind whose bond of union should be a compact of detraction , a confederacy of malignities , an alliance for the defamation of men more honoured than its members . On the other hand , it may be reasonably assumed , or at least it may ...
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... kind ; yet , or it may be because , every word has in it the vibra- tion of earthly emotion ; but through it rather than above , there grows and pierces a note of divine tender- ness , the very passion of pity that before this has made ...
... kind ; yet , or it may be because , every word has in it the vibra- tion of earthly emotion ; but through it rather than above , there grows and pierces a note of divine tender- ness , the very passion of pity that before this has made ...
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... kind , it is a relief to recall the greeting sent to it by a great English republican from the extreme verge of life , and from the shore of the new world by the first poet of American democracy . rapine and spoliation , of the hands ...
... kind , it is a relief to recall the greeting sent to it by a great English republican from the extreme verge of life , and from the shore of the new world by the first poet of American democracy . rapine and spoliation , of the hands ...
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... kind can rival even on his own peculiar ground , for tender grace and delicacy of beauty , the most potent poets of a higher order , sovereigns of lyric and of tragic song . It is Eschylus , and not Euripides , who fills the bitter air ...
... kind can rival even on his own peculiar ground , for tender grace and delicacy of beauty , the most potent poets of a higher order , sovereigns of lyric and of tragic song . It is Eschylus , and not Euripides , who fills the bitter air ...
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