Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - English literature |
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... Wonder . As was said on that occasion , ' The phrase , the Renascence of Wonder , merely indicates that there are two great impulses governing man , and probably not man only but the entire world of conscious life : the impulse of ...
... Wonder . As was said on that occasion , ' The phrase , the Renascence of Wonder , merely indicates that there are two great impulses governing man , and probably not man only but the entire world of conscious life : the impulse of ...
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... wonder which characterises Homer was to be expected . But it might at least have been sup- posed that he would succeed better with Virgil ; for Virgil was born only five years before the typical Augustan poet of Rome , Horace . But then ...
... wonder which characterises Homer was to be expected . But it might at least have been sup- posed that he would succeed better with Virgil ; for Virgil was born only five years before the typical Augustan poet of Rome , Horace . But then ...
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... wonder . But in poetry the mere physiognomy of life is only suggested : in prose it has to be secured . Hugo never secured it . Shelley's place in the Renascence of Wonder is peculiar . His vigorous imagination was partially strangled ...
... wonder . But in poetry the mere physiognomy of life is only suggested : in prose it has to be secured . Hugo never secured it . Shelley's place in the Renascence of Wonder is peculiar . His vigorous imagination was partially strangled ...
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 11 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT | 30 |
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