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Excerpt from An Essay on the Study of Literature, and on Vocal Culture as Indispensable to an Esthetic Appreciation of Poetry
It is also Within its scope to trace the development of ideas relative to literary art, and the different views held at different periods as to the legitimate functions of the several departments of Literature. There is no study more interesting than this, treating, as it does, of the infinite phases and attitudes which the human mind presents under different circumstances, and yet remaining in all places and in all times, essentially the.
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