AddisonMacmillan, 1884 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... words seem to imply that the social evolution he describes was produced by an imperceptible and almost mechanical process of national instinct , the impression they tend to create is entirely erroneous . If we have been hitherto saved ...
... words seem to imply that the social evolution he describes was produced by an imperceptible and almost mechanical process of national instinct , the impression they tend to create is entirely erroneous . If we have been hitherto saved ...
Pagina 12
... word for it , a setting dog has as good reason as any man in England . ” 1 While opinions , which from different sides struck at the very roots of society , prevailed both in the fashion- able and religious portions of the community ...
... word for it , a setting dog has as good reason as any man in England . ” 1 While opinions , which from different sides struck at the very roots of society , prevailed both in the fashion- able and religious portions of the community ...
Pagina 14
... words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into the ridiculous ; instead of holding ...
... words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into the ridiculous ; instead of holding ...
Pagina 29
... words rather than of things ; but he had himself had no experience of a public school , and only those who fail to appreciate the influence of Latin verse composi- tion on the style of our own greatest orators , and of poets like Milton ...
... words rather than of things ; but he had himself had no experience of a public school , and only those who fail to appreciate the influence of Latin verse composi- tion on the style of our own greatest orators , and of poets like Milton ...
Pagina 34
... words , according to the fore- going instances , there is another kind of wit , which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas and partly in the resem- blance of words , which , for distinction's sake , I shall call mixed wit . This ...
... words , according to the fore- going instances , there is another kind of wit , which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas and partly in the resem- blance of words , which , for distinction's sake , I shall call mixed wit . This ...
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