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... poetic hunger of a reader who looked for his whole being to be stirred , or to sustain a poet wishing to employ his reason simultaneously with his passion in intuitive speech and imagery . Both , we may be tempted to think , were ...
... poetic hunger of a reader who looked for his whole being to be stirred , or to sustain a poet wishing to employ his reason simultaneously with his passion in intuitive speech and imagery . Both , we may be tempted to think , were ...
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... poet , nor a poet before a philosopher , but a philosopher - poet , a supreme example not only of the possibility of that composite personality , but of its potential greatness . A better proof could hardly be offered than the view held ...
... poet , nor a poet before a philosopher , but a philosopher - poet , a supreme example not only of the possibility of that composite personality , but of its potential greatness . A better proof could hardly be offered than the view held ...
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... poet's mind and given a prophet's sense of mission and a poet's transmutation of argument into argumentative vision . Lucretius was like some painter who , taking what might seem to others a dull and barren landscape , transforms it by ...
... poet's mind and given a prophet's sense of mission and a poet's transmutation of argument into argumentative vision . Lucretius was like some painter who , taking what might seem to others a dull and barren landscape , transforms it by ...
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ANNUAL REPORT 19489 | 9 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
Printers and Readers in ItalY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Italian | 25 |
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