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" All the literature of knowledge builds only ground-nests, that are swept away by floods, or confounded by the plough; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This... "
The Works of Thomas De Quincey - Page 389
by Thomas De Quincey - 1876
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The North British Review, Volumes 8-9

1848 - 626 pages
...nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. 'ITiis is a great prerogative of the power literature ; and it is a greater which lies in the<node of its influence. The knowledge literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away....
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Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1853 - 310 pages
...; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great...literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away. An Encyclopedia is its abstract ; and, in this respect, it may be taken for its speaking symbol — that,...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 428 pages
...but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes, of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great prerogative of the pozcer-literature. . . . The Arnojcfefye-literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away....
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes, of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great prerogative of the jxjicer-literature. . . . The /cnorefe/^e-literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away....
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Introduction to English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes, of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great prerogative of the power-literature. . . . The knawledgeliterature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away. . ....
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Including All His ...

Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pages
...plough; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great...literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away. An Encyclopedia is its abstract; and, in this respect, it may be taken for its speaking symbol —that,...
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Beauties

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 454 pages
...; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great...knowledge literature, like the fashion of this world, passe th away. An Encyclopaedia is its abstract ; and, in this respect, it may be taken for its speaking...
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Leaders in Literature: With a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them

Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 pages
...; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great...literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away. An Encyclopcedia is its abstract ; and, in this respect, it may be taken for its speaking symbol — that,...
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Essays on the Poets, and Other English Writers

Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1863 - 316 pages
...; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great prerogative of the power literature ; arid it is a greater which lies in the mode of its influence. The knowledge literature, like the...
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Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1877 - 440 pages
...lies in the mode of its influence. The knowledge literature, like the fashion of this world, passe th away. An Encyclopaedia is its abstract ; and, in this...may be taken for its speaking symbol, that, before ona generation has passed, an Encyclopaedia is superannuated ; for it speaks through the dead memory...
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