English Literature ...New university society, 1941 |
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... pleasures of reading are unchanged , its enrichment and interpretation of life ; but there is an additional pleasure to be got out of a conscious reflection upon the methods by which these results are obtained . The interest in ...
... pleasures of reading are unchanged , its enrichment and interpretation of life ; but there is an additional pleasure to be got out of a conscious reflection upon the methods by which these results are obtained . The interest in ...
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... pleasure , that we so seldom approach the classics with the same gusto with which we approach a monthly magazine . We determine , perhaps , to read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . We proceed to do so , and we say to our ...
... pleasure , that we so seldom approach the classics with the same gusto with which we approach a monthly magazine . We determine , perhaps , to read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . We proceed to do so , and we say to our ...
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... pleasure of being commended for reading him ; had I been a child of more independent mind I should have refused to ... pleasures of youth , and is probably entwined with all our other sentimental retrospective feelings . It is , no doubt ...
... pleasure of being commended for reading him ; had I been a child of more independent mind I should have refused to ... pleasures of youth , and is probably entwined with all our other sentimental retrospective feelings . It is , no doubt ...
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READING MAKETH A FULL MAN by Geoffrey Crump M | 15 |
A MIRROR HELD UP TO LIFE | 24 |
TOM JONES IN TROUBLE Henry Fielding | 59 |
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