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There is never any use in spending time over one ' s unfitness for any kind of
work : the only thing to do is to make oneself as fit as one can and think no more
about it . But there is something else . It is not merely a matter of unfitness .
There is never any use in spending time over one ' s unfitness for any kind of
work : the only thing to do is to make oneself as fit as one can and think no more
about it . But there is something else . It is not merely a matter of unfitness .
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The first thing is to get to know each other , and there is only one topic we are
certain to have in common , and that is human life . Indeed , human life is the
proper preliminary subject of any book or course of lectures about literature .
The first thing is to get to know each other , and there is only one topic we are
certain to have in common , and that is human life . Indeed , human life is the
proper preliminary subject of any book or course of lectures about literature .
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And there is another thing . He is the first to sound the free , fresh , natural , and
easy note which we think of as modern , though many of the Greeks and some of
the Romans had it . But the Middle Age had largely lost it . There are exceptions ...
And there is another thing . He is the first to sound the free , fresh , natural , and
easy note which we think of as modern , though many of the Greeks and some of
the Romans had it . But the Middle Age had largely lost it . There are exceptions ...
Сторінка 10
But , after all , apotheosis is for things and persons which on earth are dead . ...
life : nor , again , the consummate force , brevity , and decision of its style : without
these the poem would not be the thing of immortality which it unquestionably is .
But , after all , apotheosis is for things and persons which on earth are dead . ...
life : nor , again , the consummate force , brevity , and decision of its style : without
these the poem would not be the thing of immortality which it unquestionably is .
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But , for good or for evil , with the Renascence and Reformation we put away
childish things . ... Life has become an affair for grown men ; not merely , as in
Chaucer , a thing to be accepted , played with , enjoyed , suffered , but a thing to
be ...
But , for good or for evil , with the Renascence and Reformation we put away
childish things . ... Life has become an affair for grown men ; not merely , as in
Chaucer , a thing to be accepted , played with , enjoyed , suffered , but a thing to
be ...
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| Назва | The Continuity of Letters |
| Автор | John Cann Bailey |
| Видавець | Clarendon Press, 1923 |
| Оригінал із | Мічиганський університет |
| Оцифровано | 5 вер. 2006 |
| Обсяг | 273 стор. |
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