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... never hope to visit ? I have seen a volume by a lady , whose tales have instructed and delighted thousands , containing her Journal of foreign travel in letters to her own school children in the Isle of Wight . To me the book appeared ...
... never hope to visit ? I have seen a volume by a lady , whose tales have instructed and delighted thousands , containing her Journal of foreign travel in letters to her own school children in the Isle of Wight . To me the book appeared ...
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... thing of recounting his adventures to an audience who can never hope to see the Alps , and to whom some talk about them is far more interesting PREFACE CONTENTS . PAGE vii LECTURES . 1 ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE PREFACE . xiii.
... thing of recounting his adventures to an audience who can never hope to see the Alps , and to whom some talk about them is far more interesting PREFACE CONTENTS . PAGE vii LECTURES . 1 ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE PREFACE . xiii.
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... never learned it . I say , if we have never learned it : and what does that imply ? Why simply this that our superior faculty , our intelligence , is that to which language appeals , and the eye and ear are merely tools which she trains ...
... never learned it . I say , if we have never learned it : and what does that imply ? Why simply this that our superior faculty , our intelligence , is that to which language appeals , and the eye and ear are merely tools which she trains ...
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... never happened : it does not add anything whatever to the poetic enjoyment of it , to know that it has been realised in time . But , you will say to me , Do I not much more in- tensely enjoy the description of a scene which I know has ...
... never happened : it does not add anything whatever to the poetic enjoyment of it , to know that it has been realised in time . But , you will say to me , Do I not much more in- tensely enjoy the description of a scene which I know has ...
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... never for the life of me could make out what we gain by using these same fine words . Nay I , perhaps unfortunately ... never " go , " but always " proceed ; " never " feel , " but always " experience a sensation ; " never " live ...
... never for the life of me could make out what we gain by using these same fine words . Nay I , perhaps unfortunately ... never " go , " but always " proceed ; " never " feel , " but always " experience a sensation ; " never " live ...
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