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... seems an easy matter until we think seriously about it ; and then it seems so diffi- cult that we are tempted to think it impossible . Some have even reinforced this temptation by argument , urging that the mind , whose business it is ...
... seems an easy matter until we think seriously about it ; and then it seems so diffi- cult that we are tempted to think it impossible . Some have even reinforced this temptation by argument , urging that the mind , whose business it is ...
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... seems to be to adumbrate the vastness of the universe , centred in the Buddha ; the Buddha not of Compassion but of Law . It is this rather than the effort , as in Egypt , to impress by mere magnitude . Again there are incised reliefs ...
... seems to be to adumbrate the vastness of the universe , centred in the Buddha ; the Buddha not of Compassion but of Law . It is this rather than the effort , as in Egypt , to impress by mere magnitude . Again there are incised reliefs ...
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... seems to flow over and hold all these listeners in an unending rapture . The practice of an art , or the sharing in its practice by contemplation , seems indeed the only occupation conceiv- ably worthy of a dweller in paradise . And the ...
... seems to flow over and hold all these listeners in an unending rapture . The practice of an art , or the sharing in its practice by contemplation , seems indeed the only occupation conceiv- ably worthy of a dweller in paradise . And the ...
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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