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... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of re- finement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imi- tation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the ...
... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of re- finement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imi- tation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the ...
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... less in its obvious mean- ing than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pro- nounced , than the past is present ...
... less in its obvious mean- ing than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pro- nounced , than the past is present ...
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... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite in which Egypt enshrined her mystic ...
... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite in which Egypt enshrined her mystic ...
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... less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interest- ing . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
... less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interest- ing . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
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... less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indi- cating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck him as discreditable . After this , it ...
... less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indi- cating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck him as discreditable . After this , it ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volúmenes1-2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1899 |
Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1880 |
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