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... human responsi- bility . The answer is that the notion of human responsibility is precisely what gives history a meaning in Manzoni's eyes . The spectacle of human errors and follies seems to provide him with an inexhaustible storehouse ...
... human responsi- bility . The answer is that the notion of human responsibility is precisely what gives history a meaning in Manzoni's eyes . The spectacle of human errors and follies seems to provide him with an inexhaustible storehouse ...
Page 81
... human spirit which the poets are continually recovering for us from the wastage and loss of everyday life . In knowing Hamlet or Lear we know also some- thing of ourselves . But we find ourselves in yet another way . We are all guilty ...
... human spirit which the poets are continually recovering for us from the wastage and loss of everyday life . In knowing Hamlet or Lear we know also some- thing of ourselves . But we find ourselves in yet another way . We are all guilty ...
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... human terms : the old soldier in Book IV of The Prelude , the beggar in the streets of London , Michael , the leech - gatherer ; and there are many other figures like them in Wordsworth's poems . These land- scapes and these figures are ...
... human terms : the old soldier in Book IV of The Prelude , the beggar in the streets of London , Michael , the leech - gatherer ; and there are many other figures like them in Wordsworth's poems . These land- scapes and these figures are ...
Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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