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Page 36
... true colours , and often distorted its proportions . And thus while more than any one he prepared the instruments and the path for the great triumph , he himself missed the true field for the highest exercise of poetic power ; he missed ...
... true colours , and often distorted its proportions . And thus while more than any one he prepared the instruments and the path for the great triumph , he himself missed the true field for the highest exercise of poetic power ; he missed ...
Page 136
... true economy in using them . With the classics open before it , and alive to much of the gran- deur of their teaching , it was almost blind to the spirit of self - restraint , proportion , and simplicity which governed the great models ...
... true economy in using them . With the classics open before it , and alive to much of the gran- deur of their teaching , it was almost blind to the spirit of self - restraint , proportion , and simplicity which governed the great models ...
Page 137
... true , with all their admiration of the Queen's high qualities , should have offered it , even as an unmeaning custom ; and that a proud and free - spoken people should not , in the very genuineness of their pride in her and their ...
... true , with all their admiration of the Queen's high qualities , should have offered it , even as an unmeaning custom ; and that a proud and free - spoken people should not , in the very genuineness of their pride in her and their ...
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