The Protective Policy in Literature: A Discourse on the Social and Moral Advantages of the Cultivation of Local Literature

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Follett, Foster and Company, 1859 - Počet stran: 29
 

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Strana 24 - The purpose of this book is to comprise within the bounds of a single volume whatever is truly beautiful and admirable among the minor poems of the English language. * * * Especial care has also been taken to give every poem entire and unmutilated, as well as in the most authentic form which could be procured.
Strana 25 - Editor to exercise a catholic as well аз a severe taste-, and to judge every piece by its poetical merit solely, without regard to the name, nationality, or epoch of its author.
Strana 4 - I stand ; And with clear vision gazing thence, Thy glories round me far expand : Rivers, whose likeness earth has not, And lakes, that elsewhere seas would be. Whose shores the countless wild herds dot, Fleet as the winds, and all as...
Strana 28 - The extent of this feeling for a western literature may be measured by the numerous attempts to encourage sectional literary expression through newspapers, books, and magazines. In spite of repeated charges that "our friends of the western press . . . exert their influence in favor of eastern periodicals...
Strana 25 - English language," and he claims to have developed "a considerable store of treasures hitherto less known to the general public than to scholars and to limited circles," from " careful and prolonged research in the current receptacles of fugitive poets.
Strana 24 - The Household Book of Poetry" compiled and edited by Charles A. Dana, one of the editors of the New York Tribune.

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