The Oral Study of LiteratureF. S. Crofts & Company, 1932 - 483 pages |
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Page 117
... nature . You do not know what Nature is , or what she can do ; and nobody knows . Wise men are afraid to say that there is any- thing contrary to nature except what is contrary to mathematical truth , as that two and two cannot make ...
... nature . You do not know what Nature is , or what she can do ; and nobody knows . Wise men are afraid to say that there is any- thing contrary to nature except what is contrary to mathematical truth , as that two and two cannot make ...
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... nature . This is a noble character in the abstract , but becomes ignoble when it causes us to forget the relative dignities of that nature itself , and to prefer the perfectness of the lower nature to the imperfection of the higher ...
... nature . This is a noble character in the abstract , but becomes ignoble when it causes us to forget the relative dignities of that nature itself , and to prefer the perfectness of the lower nature to the imperfection of the higher ...
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... natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds ? We go to nature for comfort in trouble and sympathy in joy , only in books . Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world , which modern poetry so largely and so ...
... natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds ? We go to nature for comfort in trouble and sympathy in joy , only in books . Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world , which modern poetry so largely and so ...
Contents
PREFACE INTRODUCTION | 1 |
PASSAGES FOR READING AND STUDY | 39 |
Assertion and Implication | 433 |
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A. C. SWINBURNE ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH assertion beauty breath Cæsar CLARENCE DAY consciousness dark dead death Dionysus divine doth dream earth emotional emphasis eternal eyes fact fear feel flowers give glory grow H. L. MENCKEN hand happy hath hear heart heaven hope human ideas immortal king Knopf Lady of Shalott LEO TOLSTOI light literary live look LORD man's MATTHEW ARNOLD means mind moral nature never night o'er Odysseus once oral passion permission of Charles person poets poor published by Alfred reader reason religion rest ROBERT BROWNING sense sentence silent sing slave sleep song soul speak spirit stars student sweet tears thee thine things thought tion to-day truth voice whole wild WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT WILLIAM WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words writer wrong youth