A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 Seiten |
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... genius pouring forth magnificent images and expres- sions and suddenly his deep scorn for his opponents suggest- ing and throwing into the midst of this splendor sarcasms and degrading comparisons altogether at variance with the gen ...
... genius pouring forth magnificent images and expres- sions and suddenly his deep scorn for his opponents suggest- ing and throwing into the midst of this splendor sarcasms and degrading comparisons altogether at variance with the gen ...
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... genius . Wordsworth expresses this quality of Milton's style and of his character in the single line , His soul was like a star and dwelt apart . ' " - Edmond Scherer . " A want of humor , with its usual concomitant , a want of power to ...
... genius . Wordsworth expresses this quality of Milton's style and of his character in the single line , His soul was like a star and dwelt apart . ' " - Edmond Scherer . " A want of humor , with its usual concomitant , a want of power to ...
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... genius of liberty ; if you , who are exceeded by no one in justice , in piety , and good- ness , should hereafter invade that liberty which you have de- fended , your conduct must be fatally operative , not only against the cause of ...
... genius of liberty ; if you , who are exceeded by no one in justice , in piety , and good- ness , should hereafter invade that liberty which you have de- fended , your conduct must be fatally operative , not only against the cause of ...
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... genius and a vivid descrip- tive faculty ; his works are equally attractive to readers of all ages and every variety of mental culture ; they are among the first to be taken up in the nursery and among the last to be laid down when life ...
... genius and a vivid descrip- tive faculty ; his works are equally attractive to readers of all ages and every variety of mental culture ; they are among the first to be taken up in the nursery and among the last to be laid down when life ...
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... genius was a native genius . As soon as he began to write at all he wrote well . Without any training , as he says , in the school of Aristotle or Plato , or any study of the great masters of literature , at one bound he leapt to a high ...
... genius was a native genius . As soon as he began to write at all he wrote well . Without any training , as he says , in the school of Aristotle or Plato , or any study of the great masters of literature , at one bound he leapt to a high ...
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