American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... whole evidence that the end for which it was learnt at all has been attained . The attention has been roused , the faculties have been stretched ; and therefore the knowledge of those things towards which the mind was directed is ...
... whole evidence that the end for which it was learnt at all has been attained . The attention has been roused , the faculties have been stretched ; and therefore the knowledge of those things towards which the mind was directed is ...
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... whole earth ; is heard among all tongues and nations ; descends through all posterity ;. and lives for ever , immortal as his own soul . Homer and ye sacred prophets , attest this truth ! " pp . 23—26 . We have quoted this eloquent ...
... whole earth ; is heard among all tongues and nations ; descends through all posterity ;. and lives for ever , immortal as his own soul . Homer and ye sacred prophets , attest this truth ! " pp . 23—26 . We have quoted this eloquent ...
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... whole earth , that we can forego this panoply , and extinguish the light by which all other nations have walked ? It is the very prescrip- tion of an acute philosopher to make a despotism . " Destroy the ancient Greek and Latin authors ...
... whole earth , that we can forego this panoply , and extinguish the light by which all other nations have walked ? It is the very prescrip- tion of an acute philosopher to make a despotism . " Destroy the ancient Greek and Latin authors ...
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... whole poems marked for extraction , which our limits compel us to neglect . The attempt would be vain to do full justice to the several excellencies of our author , by present- ing detached portions of striking and brilliant poetry ...
... whole poems marked for extraction , which our limits compel us to neglect . The attempt would be vain to do full justice to the several excellencies of our author , by present- ing detached portions of striking and brilliant poetry ...
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... whole that we perceive the exceeding richness of the soil whence spring , in spontaneous luxuriance , flowers of such surpassing and enduring beauty . He has enriched incalcu- lably the French language , founding a new school of poetry ...
... whole that we perceive the exceeding richness of the soil whence spring , in spontaneous luxuriance , flowers of such surpassing and enduring beauty . He has enriched incalcu- lably the French language , founding a new school of poetry ...
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