Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - English literature |
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... human beings . Having accepted with her usual too great docility the negative view of those who held that Christianity is a mere dream dreamt in the idealising mood of eager human aspiration , she passed on sadly to a pitying study of ...
... human beings . Having accepted with her usual too great docility the negative view of those who held that Christianity is a mere dream dreamt in the idealising mood of eager human aspiration , she passed on sadly to a pitying study of ...
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... human work none but what is bad can be perfect , in its own bad way . The second reason is , that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life . It is the sign of life in a mortal body , that is to say , of a state ...
... human work none but what is bad can be perfect , in its own bad way . The second reason is , that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life . It is the sign of life in a mortal body , that is to say , of a state ...
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... human miserableness than of human grief . But this cannot be said of Tess and Jude the Obscure . There we have a true rendering of the anguish of the human spirit , of the depths , though not of the heights , in life . From ' The Return ...
... human miserableness than of human grief . But this cannot be said of Tess and Jude the Obscure . There we have a true rendering of the anguish of the human spirit , of the depths , though not of the heights , in life . From ' The Return ...
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 11 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT | 30 |
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