English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's "Compendium of English Literature", and Supplementary to It. Designed for Colleges and Advanced Classes in Schools, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1853 - 785 páginas |
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... mind is to be medicated by the operations of pity and terror , surely no means are so well adapted to that end as a strong and lively representation of the agonizing struggles that precede , and the terrible horrors that follow , wicked ...
... mind is to be medicated by the operations of pity and terror , surely no means are so well adapted to that end as a strong and lively representation of the agonizing struggles that precede , and the terrible horrors that follow , wicked ...
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... mind , and to supply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation pe- culiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , gran- deur , and elegance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify ...
... mind , and to supply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation pe- culiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , gran- deur , and elegance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify ...
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... mind bent , in some degree , and active , they relieve it at the same time from that more toilsome labour to which it must submit in the acquisi- tion of necessary erudition , or the investigation of abstract truth . The cultivation of ...
... mind bent , in some degree , and active , they relieve it at the same time from that more toilsome labour to which it must submit in the acquisi- tion of necessary erudition , or the investigation of abstract truth . The cultivation of ...
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... mind much above its ordi- nary state , and fills it with a degree of wonder and astonishment , which it cannot well express . The emotion is certainly delightful ; but it is altogether of the serious kind ; a degree of awfulness and ...
... mind much above its ordi- nary state , and fills it with a degree of wonder and astonishment , which it cannot well express . The emotion is certainly delightful ; but it is altogether of the serious kind ; a degree of awfulness and ...
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... mind . For this period , as for every thing , certain preparation is necessary ; and that preparation consists in the acquisition of knowledge , friends , and virtue . Then is the time when a man would especially wish to find himself ...
... mind . For this period , as for every thing , certain preparation is necessary ; and that preparation consists in the acquisition of knowledge , friends , and virtue . Then is the time when a man would especially wish to find himself ...
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