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... pro- ceeding is doubtless admirably calculated to give to their efforts unity of direction and purpose , and to maintain that importance and that sway over the public mind which they have already 2 [ Jan. PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF GERMANY .
... pro- ceeding is doubtless admirably calculated to give to their efforts unity of direction and purpose , and to maintain that importance and that sway over the public mind which they have already 2 [ Jan. PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF GERMANY .
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that sway over the public mind which they have already acquired . But it is very much to be feared that the national taste is vitiated , and the national literature deteriorated , by the partiality which ... mind which they have already ...
that sway over the public mind which they have already acquired . But it is very much to be feared that the national taste is vitiated , and the national literature deteriorated , by the partiality which ... mind which they have already ...
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... mind us too much of the " spavin'd dactyls " of our own Southey , and his prototype , Sidney . For example : - Da griff's rasch nach dem Säbel , und hieb mit Gejanchz in die Feind'ein . Which is almost as primitive and monosyllabic as ...
... mind us too much of the " spavin'd dactyls " of our own Southey , and his prototype , Sidney . For example : - Da griff's rasch nach dem Säbel , und hieb mit Gejanchz in die Feind'ein . Which is almost as primitive and monosyllabic as ...
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... mind . But it soon became evident , that they had a powerful and courageous foe to deal with , one equally expert at the weapons of jest and earnest ; and who , far from allowing himself to be daunted , gradually extended the field of ...
... mind . But it soon became evident , that they had a powerful and courageous foe to deal with , one equally expert at the weapons of jest and earnest ; and who , far from allowing himself to be daunted , gradually extended the field of ...
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... mind , places his hands upon the knight's shoulders , and surveys his strange figure from head to foot . Here we have before us the comic and the tragic madman - the dried - up brain and the withered heart - and we hardly know whether ...
... mind , places his hands upon the knight's shoulders , and surveys his strange figure from head to foot . Here we have before us the comic and the tragic madman - the dried - up brain and the withered heart - and we hardly know whether ...
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