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His greatest poem tells us about the growth , the loss , and the recovery of his capacity for seeing into the life of things . We may well feel that even if he had never become a poet he might yet have been a seer , a seer whose vision ...
His greatest poem tells us about the growth , the loss , and the recovery of his capacity for seeing into the life of things . We may well feel that even if he had never become a poet he might yet have been a seer , a seer whose vision ...
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of In Memoriam is a poetry which seeks to allay the terror and remove the fear , if that were possible ; Tennyson seems not to have realized that it would be strange if the human mind were not confronted with these things , that these ...
of In Memoriam is a poetry which seeks to allay the terror and remove the fear , if that were possible ; Tennyson seems not to have realized that it would be strange if the human mind were not confronted with these things , that these ...
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Chaucer often makes fun of things for which he had a serious regard , and particularly in the Nun's Priest's Tale he mockingly alludes to many things in which he elsewhere shows deep interest - the significance of dreams , for example ...
Chaucer often makes fun of things for which he had a serious regard , and particularly in the Nun's Priest's Tale he mockingly alludes to many things in which he elsewhere shows deep interest - the significance of dreams , for example ...
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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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