A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... sense ' is only one aspect of the aesthetic sense , which perceives the beauty of things . For creation is a universal harmony .. This theory of the perfection of the universe has had its echo in the pantheistic optimism of the Essay on ...
... sense ' is only one aspect of the aesthetic sense , which perceives the beauty of things . For creation is a universal harmony .. This theory of the perfection of the universe has had its echo in the pantheistic optimism of the Essay on ...
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... sense of poetic values . It matters little if the figure of Ossian or the pictorial repre- sentation of his universe be a creation of the most fictitious fancy ; if the tales are a strange blending of legendary lore and simple ...
... sense of poetic values . It matters little if the figure of Ossian or the pictorial repre- sentation of his universe be a creation of the most fictitious fancy ; if the tales are a strange blending of legendary lore and simple ...
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... sense of life still stands him in good stead , but where his perception is neither so definite nor so new as when confronted with the material universe . His desire for objectivity has often led him to present the facts of his plots as ...
... sense of life still stands him in good stead , but where his perception is neither so definite nor so new as when confronted with the material universe . His desire for objectivity has often led him to present the facts of his plots as ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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