Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... things indeed in literary history are more striking than the effect produced by the sudden unsealing of the treasure - houses of class- ical antiquity in the middle of the fifteenth century . The critical activity of Europe , which had ...
... things indeed in literary history are more striking than the effect produced by the sudden unsealing of the treasure - houses of class- ical antiquity in the middle of the fifteenth century . The critical activity of Europe , which had ...
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... things at first hand and for himself , of finding his way to their central meaning , of bringing to bear upon what is new the gathered and reasoned knowledge which he has gained elsewhere , and of expressing in words , intelligible to ...
... things at first hand and for himself , of finding his way to their central meaning , of bringing to bear upon what is new the gathered and reasoned knowledge which he has gained elsewhere , and of expressing in words , intelligible to ...
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... things . " The greatest of English historians , Gibbon himself , is not exempt from the same reproach . When the account comes to be taken between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries , it will probably turn out that some of our ...
... things . " The greatest of English historians , Gibbon himself , is not exempt from the same reproach . When the account comes to be taken between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries , it will probably turn out that some of our ...
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... things are more interesting to watch than the attempts of scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life of a man at once so illustrious and so obscure as the greatest of our poets . The case of ...
... things are more interesting to watch than the attempts of scholars and critics , like Dowden and Brandes and Sidney Lee , to reconstruct the life of a man at once so illustrious and so obscure as the greatest of our poets . The case of ...
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... thing in common . They are authentic human docu- ments - the very mirror of the writer's personality , and it is by that quality that they make an appeal to us , more vivid . because more direct , than any narrative by another hand . I ...
... thing in common . They are authentic human docu- ments - the very mirror of the writer's personality , and it is by that quality that they make an appeal to us , more vivid . because more direct , than any narrative by another hand . I ...
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