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Country life was no less dear to Wordsworth than landscape was ; it fitted into every picture ; and while the march of things , as Lucretius conceived it , was not present to Wordsworth's imagination , the revolutions of society — the ...
Country life was no less dear to Wordsworth than landscape was ; it fitted into every picture ; and while the march of things , as Lucretius conceived it , was not present to Wordsworth's imagination , the revolutions of society — the ...
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They scatter 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 ...
They scatter 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 ...
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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 .
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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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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