Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 385
... less contempla- tive and less virtuous than Wordsworth , make him , for the moment , a friend to all things , and a friend to himself . Yet these influences are vague and for the most part fleeting . Words- worth would hardly have felt ...
... less contempla- tive and less virtuous than Wordsworth , make him , for the moment , a friend to all things , and a friend to himself . Yet these influences are vague and for the most part fleeting . Words- worth would hardly have felt ...
Page 392
... less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust - and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him - the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the young Goethe first wrote it , philosophy ...
... less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust - and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him - the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the young Goethe first wrote it , philosophy ...
Page 402
... less natural . One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion ...
... less natural . One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion ...
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