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... spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with ...
... spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with ...
Page 142
... spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adven- ture . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only excitement was the books I ...
... spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adven- ture . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only excitement was the books I ...
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... spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , has at least a grandeur that satisfies the imagination ...
... spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , has at least a grandeur that satisfies the imagination ...
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