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“In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.”

Quote by Gerald Massey

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

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The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

This volume presents a curated assembly of Gerald Massey's poetic compositions, showcasing his unique style and thematic explorations across various genres. more

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Gerald Massey was an English poet born on May 29, 1828, and died on October 29, 1907. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound themes. more

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Long Hard Truth Mistake Wise Words Authority Making Mistakes Mistaken

Book:The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace

Source: The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace

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Knows World Eye Care White Sky Angel Wings

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

“This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.”

Ifs World Might This World Duty Other Worlds

Book:Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love

Source: Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love

“One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.”

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Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.”

Whole Century Melancholy

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.”

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Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.”

Giving Fiction Style Gold Foolish Exhausted Fanatics

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.”

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Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.”

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Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.”

Giving Ends States Artist Language Process Materials Models Manners Copies Affected Transition Uncertain Unstable

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel