Genius and Faith: Or, Poetry and Religion, in Their Mutual RelationsCharles Scribner, 1853 - 328 |
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... passions and pre- judices of an evil world , and so far perverted and abused , that the one has come to be regarded as a gay and gaudy Prostitute , and the other as a stern and rigid Recluse ; are notwithstanding twin sisters , heaven ...
... passions and pre- judices of an evil world , and so far perverted and abused , that the one has come to be regarded as a gay and gaudy Prostitute , and the other as a stern and rigid Recluse ; are notwithstanding twin sisters , heaven ...
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... passion oftener than from the spectres of a wild imag- ination . These are more frequently the consequences than the causes of derangement . The true dignity of the human mind consists in the full development of all its faculties , and ...
... passion oftener than from the spectres of a wild imag- ination . These are more frequently the consequences than the causes of derangement . The true dignity of the human mind consists in the full development of all its faculties , and ...
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... passions , and when these subside , more beastly still in the torpor of mental stupidity and the apathy of phy- sical sloth . Whatever excitability may belong to the savage character , is , for the most part , foreign to the element of ...
... passions , and when these subside , more beastly still in the torpor of mental stupidity and the apathy of phy- sical sloth . Whatever excitability may belong to the savage character , is , for the most part , foreign to the element of ...
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... passions , and coun- teracted by a perverse will , and made to minister to the grossest error and the most degrading superstition . Even in an enlightened age , science has been arrayed in opposition to truth , and placed in the ...
... passions , and coun- teracted by a perverse will , and made to minister to the grossest error and the most degrading superstition . Even in an enlightened age , science has been arrayed in opposition to truth , and placed in the ...
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... passions and tastes prevail so opposite to the pure spirit which they breathe . But we maintain , that among such we find the purest essence of poetry . We have extended our remarks on this view of the subject to a greater length , than ...
... passions and tastes prevail so opposite to the pure spirit which they breathe . But we maintain , that among such we find the purest essence of poetry . We have extended our remarks on this view of the subject to a greater length , than ...
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