North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 77Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1853 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... writes his poem , - attains in this spirit the object which had formerly been his ambition . And here , in the last scene , we find him happy , or peaceful at least , with Violet . " Violet . I always pictured you in such a place ...
... writes his poem , - attains in this spirit the object which had formerly been his ambition . And here , in the last scene , we find him happy , or peaceful at least , with Violet . " Violet . I always pictured you in such a place ...
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... writes , it would almost seem , under the impression that the one business of the poet is to coin metaphors and similes . He tells them out as a clerk might sovereigns at the Bank of England . So many comparisons , so much poetry ; it ...
... writes , it would almost seem , under the impression that the one business of the poet is to coin metaphors and similes . He tells them out as a clerk might sovereigns at the Bank of England . So many comparisons , so much poetry ; it ...
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... write about . To obtain a real command of the language , some familiarity with the prose writers , at any rate , of that period , is almost essential ; and to write out , as a mere daily task , passages , for example , of Goldsmith ...
... write about . To obtain a real command of the language , some familiarity with the prose writers , at any rate , of that period , is almost essential ; and to write out , as a mere daily task , passages , for example , of Goldsmith ...
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... write a syllable about it ? If , as you say , its utterances were not recog- nized , and that his statements have first made them familiar to you , the same argument ( the Christian will say ) will do for the Bible . It is of little use ...
... write a syllable about it ? If , as you say , its utterances were not recog- nized , and that his statements have first made them familiar to you , the same argument ( the Christian will say ) will do for the Bible . It is of little use ...
Page 82
... writes to his superior officer that he has just fought a battle under such and such circumstances , or Morris communicates the state of the finances , or Jay the posture of a foreign negotiation , or Lee that of a question pending in ...
... writes to his superior officer that he has just fought a battle under such and such circumstances , or Morris communicates the state of the finances , or Jay the posture of a foreign negotiation , or Lee that of a question pending in ...
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