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... sonal qualities to things . When the penetrative imagination seizes upon an object , it at once goes to the heart of it and discovers new analogies be- Personifica- tion Natural tween it and things ; it makes 5 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... sonal qualities to things . When the penetrative imagination seizes upon an object , it at once goes to the heart of it and discovers new analogies be- Personifica- tion Natural tween it and things ; it makes 5 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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... heart . Το " break the news " consolingly had been our problem , and was really the raison d'être of this letter . By permission of Mrs. Sidney Lanier . Rights reserved . JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL , AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS , TO HIS BROTHER ...
... heart . Το " break the news " consolingly had been our problem , and was really the raison d'être of this letter . By permission of Mrs. Sidney Lanier . Rights reserved . JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL , AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS , TO HIS BROTHER ...
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... heart , and the voice of a married man of seven years ought to have weight in felicitation . It has always seemed that my fancy was fleet enough to outrun the fact , and yet I have been always distanced . As a lover you think mar- riage ...
... heart , and the voice of a married man of seven years ought to have weight in felicitation . It has always seemed that my fancy was fleet enough to outrun the fact , and yet I have been always distanced . As a lover you think mar- riage ...
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... heart with usury to such scenes ? My attachments are all local , purely local . I have no passion ( or have had none since I was in love , and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books ) for groves and valleys . The rooms ...
... heart with usury to such scenes ? My attachments are all local , purely local . I have no passion ( or have had none since I was in love , and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books ) for groves and valleys . The rooms ...
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... heart for the noble ode which with all my heart I have read and enjoyed . Certainly you have done nothing in a loftier strain , nor has anything more truly worthy of the great theme 49 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... heart for the noble ode which with all my heart I have read and enjoyed . Certainly you have done nothing in a loftier strain , nor has anything more truly worthy of the great theme 49 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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