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... in its reality , through our own feelings and experience , is like the same ray transmitted through a lens , - blinding , burning , consuming where it falls . MEDON . Your illustration is the most poetical , I 14 INTRODUCTION .
... in its reality , through our own feelings and experience , is like the same ray transmitted through a lens , - blinding , burning , consuming where it falls . MEDON . Your illustration is the most poetical , I 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... illustration is the most poetical , I allow ; but not the most just . But tell me , is the ground you have taken sufficiently large ? -is the foundation you have chosen strong enough to bear the moral super- structure you raise upon it ...
... illustration is the most poetical , I allow ; but not the most just . But tell me , is the ground you have taken sufficiently large ? -is the foundation you have chosen strong enough to bear the moral super- structure you raise upon it ...
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... illustrations into classes ; but shades of character so melt into each other , and the various faculties and powers are so blended and balanced , that all classification must be arbitrary . I am at a loss to conceive where you have ...
... illustrations into classes ; but shades of character so melt into each other , and the various faculties and powers are so blended and balanced , that all classification must be arbitrary . I am at a loss to conceive where you have ...
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... illustration . Portia I regard as a perfect model of an intellectual woman , in whom wit is tempered by sensibility , and fancy regu- lated by strong reflection . It is objected to her , to Beatrice , and others of Shakspeare's women ...
... illustration . Portia I regard as a perfect model of an intellectual woman , in whom wit is tempered by sensibility , and fancy regu- lated by strong reflection . It is objected to her , to Beatrice , and others of Shakspeare's women ...
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... illustrated : CAMIOLA . You have heard of Bertoldo's captivity , and the king's neglect , the greatness of his ransom ; fifty thousand crowns , Adorni ! Two parts of my estate ! Yet I so love the gentleman , for to you I will confess my ...
... illustrated : CAMIOLA . You have heard of Bertoldo's captivity , and the king's neglect , the greatness of his ransom ; fifty thousand crowns , Adorni ! Two parts of my estate ! Yet I so love the gentleman , for to you I will confess my ...
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