An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 130
... nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on ...
... nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on ...
Page 185
... nature because we occupied an developed and fabulously rich continent simultane- ously with the discoveries of science which made it possible for us to extract those riches easily . We have only developed resources , not conquered nature ...
... nature because we occupied an developed and fabulously rich continent simultane- ously with the discoveries of science which made it possible for us to extract those riches easily . We have only developed resources , not conquered nature ...
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... Nature still shines on : shall we be called away before the curtain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like chil- dren , our stepmother Nature holds us up to see the raree - show of the universe , and then ...
... Nature still shines on : shall we be called away before the curtain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like chil- dren , our stepmother Nature holds us up to see the raree - show of the universe , and then ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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