Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe which has swept away so entirely the tra- ditional memorials of one so illustrious ? Such is the fatality of error which overclouds every question con ...
... intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe which has swept away so entirely the tra- ditional memorials of one so illustrious ? Such is the fatality of error which overclouds every question con ...
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... Intellectually they admired , and would not belie their admiration ; but they did not give their hearts cor- dially , they did not abandon themselves to their natural impulses . They averted their eyes and weaned their attention from ...
... Intellectually they admired , and would not belie their admiration ; but they did not give their hearts cor- dially , they did not abandon themselves to their natural impulses . They averted their eyes and weaned their attention from ...
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... intellectual potentates who have recommended them- selves by gracious manners , could so soon and so utterly have been obliterated ? Malone , with childish irreflection , ascribes the loss of such memorials to the want of enthusiasm in ...
... intellectual potentates who have recommended them- selves by gracious manners , could so soon and so utterly have been obliterated ? Malone , with childish irreflection , ascribes the loss of such memorials to the want of enthusiasm in ...
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... intellectual conformation , may be deduced more fre- quently from the corresponding characteristics in the mother than in the father . It is certain that no very great man has ever existed , but that his greatness has been rehearsed and ...
... intellectual conformation , may be deduced more fre- quently from the corresponding characteristics in the mother than in the father . It is certain that no very great man has ever existed , but that his greatness has been rehearsed and ...
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... some great dependencies . Upon this we shall observe , that could we by possibility be called to settle beforehand what rank were best for favoring the development of intellectual powers , the question might SHAKSPEARE . 41.
... some great dependencies . Upon this we shall observe , that could we by possibility be called to settle beforehand what rank were best for favoring the development of intellectual powers , the question might SHAKSPEARE . 41.
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