The North American Review, Volume 107University of Northern Iowa, 1868 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 215
... thought can turn itself with greater ease in a larger compass . When the rhyme comes too thick upon us , it straightens the expression : we are thinking of the close , when we should be employed in adorn- ing the thought . It makes a ...
... thought can turn itself with greater ease in a larger compass . When the rhyme comes too thick upon us , it straightens the expression : we are thinking of the close , when we should be employed in adorn- ing the thought . It makes a ...
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... thought , as great poets have the gift of doing . But if he have not the potent alchemy that transmutes the lead of our commonplace associations into gold , as Shakespeare knows how to do so easily , yet his sense is always up to the ...
... thought , as great poets have the gift of doing . But if he have not the potent alchemy that transmutes the lead of our commonplace associations into gold , as Shakespeare knows how to do so easily , yet his sense is always up to the ...
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... thoughts . Some never attain to this . There is always some un- fortunate hitch between the thought and the expression , which prevents the proper communication of the former . Whatever relates to the structure and arrangement of ...
... thoughts . Some never attain to this . There is always some un- fortunate hitch between the thought and the expression , which prevents the proper communication of the former . Whatever relates to the structure and arrangement of ...
Contents
LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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