Excerpt from Studies in Criticism
I have chosen as the title of this special Essay, and as that which shall throw a direct influence upon those following it, a clause in our English Psalter which always plunges me into a profound reverie, so much the more wonderfully full of meaning does it appear the oftener the familiar words fall on my ear.
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