Atlantic EssaysLongmans, Green, 1894 - 341 pages |
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Page 11
... delight , what freedom from perturbation and care , when a dictionary and a dozen books furnished luxury for a lifetime ! What were wealth and fame , peerages and palaces , to him who had all Eschylus for a winter resi- dence , and ...
... delight , what freedom from perturbation and care , when a dictionary and a dozen books furnished luxury for a lifetime ! What were wealth and fame , peerages and palaces , to him who had all Eschylus for a winter resi- dence , and ...
Page 17
... delight , in a trade - list of photographic likenesses which reached me while in camp , that even in the very height of the war the civilians outnumbered the soldiers . Who were these civilians ? There was not a millionnaire among them ...
... delight , in a trade - list of photographic likenesses which reached me while in camp , that even in the very height of the war the civilians outnumbered the soldiers . Who were these civilians ? There was not a millionnaire among them ...
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... , so that we hear delightfully little about them ; whereas , if you subtract these from the current English novels , what is there left ? sluce False ideal = shipfect y 3pparas Expermalition поздов . LITERATURE AS AN ART . 31.
... , so that we hear delightfully little about them ; whereas , if you subtract these from the current English novels , what is there left ? sluce False ideal = shipfect y 3pparas Expermalition поздов . LITERATURE AS AN ART . 31.
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... delightful as to give to certain authors a value out of all proportion to their thought . There are books which are luxuries , livres de luxe , whose pages seem builded of materials more precious than those of common life . Keats , for ...
... delightful as to give to certain authors a value out of all proportion to their thought . There are books which are luxuries , livres de luxe , whose pages seem builded of materials more precious than those of common life . Keats , for ...
Page 40
... delightful . As some one said of love , " all other pleasures are not worth its pains . " But the literary man must love his art , as the painter must love painting , out of all proportion to its rewards ; or rather , the delight of the ...
... delightful . As some one said of love , " all other pleasures are not worth its pains . " But the literary man must love his art , as the painter must love painting , out of all proportion to its rewards ; or rather , the delight of the ...
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