American Literary Essays1960 |
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... look at the world about them with their own eyes and to the truth revealed by their own hearts . But the germ of what he said then and of much that he would say afterwards , in a long career as essayist and lecturer , was in “ The ...
... look at the world about them with their own eyes and to the truth revealed by their own hearts . But the germ of what he said then and of much that he would say afterwards , in a long career as essayist and lecturer , was in “ The ...
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... look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . Whatever talents may be , if the man create not , the pure efflux of the Deity is ...
... look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . Whatever talents may be , if the man create not , the pure efflux of the Deity is ...
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... look at the landscape in a Claude Lorraine glass ; compared with his , all other books of similar aim , even White's Selborne , seem dry as a coun- try clergyman's meteorological journal in an old almanac . He belongs with Donne and ...
... look at the landscape in a Claude Lorraine glass ; compared with his , all other books of similar aim , even White's Selborne , seem dry as a coun- try clergyman's meteorological journal in an old almanac . He belongs with Donne and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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