Interpretations of Literature, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1915 Lectures to his students while he "held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902"--Confer Introduction. |
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... master . His pleasure , emotional and in- tellectual , infinitely exceeding any pleasure possible to com- mon minds , is being incessantly and pitilessly interrupted and mocked by the hard facts of everyday life . 14 SHAKESPEARE.
... master . His pleasure , emotional and in- tellectual , infinitely exceeding any pleasure possible to com- mon minds , is being incessantly and pitilessly interrupted and mocked by the hard facts of everyday life . 14 SHAKESPEARE.
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... emotional character , its possessor seldom lives long . Shakespeare must have been a very strong man , but he died in 1616 ( some say on his own birthday ) at the age of fifty - two . For such a constitution , we may say that this was ...
... emotional character , its possessor seldom lives long . Shakespeare must have been a very strong man , but he died in 1616 ( some say on his own birthday ) at the age of fifty - two . For such a constitution , we may say that this was ...
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... emotions of the man in regard to love and friendship , and he understands these only as weaknesses . He sincerely be- lieves them to be weaknesses . Such feelings , he thinks , are a dangerous form of pleasure ; a man who has affections ...
... emotions of the man in regard to love and friendship , and he understands these only as weaknesses . He sincerely be- lieves them to be weaknesses . Such feelings , he thinks , are a dangerous form of pleasure ; a man who has affections ...
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... emotional value of the whole . But I have not yet touched the question of my own preference in the selection of a play for study . Some years ago , when conversing with a foreign professor , I asked him why so little attention had been ...
... emotional value of the whole . But I have not yet touched the question of my own preference in the selection of a play for study . Some years ago , when conversing with a foreign professor , I asked him why so little attention had been ...
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... emotion ; the second only that of its workmanship . A student of lit- erature should study some of the Bible from both points of view . In attempting the former method he will do well to consider many works of criticism , but for the ...
... emotion ; the second only that of its workmanship . A student of lit- erature should study some of the Bible from both points of view . In attempting the former method he will do well to consider many works of criticism , but for the ...
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