Shelburne EssaysG. P. Putnam's sons, 1919 - 253 páginas |
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... evil in itself , but as a thing perilous to those who in this earthly life would walk by a law which transcends the common measure of mortality . Aphrodite , on the contrary , stands as the em- bodiment of unrestrained and instinctive ...
... evil in itself , but as a thing perilous to those who in this earthly life would walk by a law which transcends the common measure of mortality . Aphrodite , on the contrary , stands as the em- bodiment of unrestrained and instinctive ...
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... evil doom of the Scottish usurper . Though ro- mantic in detail and in complexity of form , and though , it must be admitted , sometimes bar- barous in the handling , the greater plays of Shakespeare are in their substance profoundly ...
... evil doom of the Scottish usurper . Though ro- mantic in detail and in complexity of form , and though , it must be admitted , sometimes bar- barous in the handling , the greater plays of Shakespeare are in their substance profoundly ...
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... evil and nothing of the good of what dis- pleased him , and his palpable ignorance of the stage , together with his assurance that any page of Latin from one of the Fathers is a better ar- gument than the actual comprehension of what he ...
... evil and nothing of the good of what dis- pleased him , and his palpable ignorance of the stage , together with his assurance that any page of Latin from one of the Fathers is a better ar- gument than the actual comprehension of what he ...
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... evil which falsifies hu- man nature in a way that the more wholesome Greek doctrine of the mean avoided ; there is something strained and crabbed in his philosophy which may seem to have carried us across the world from the wisdom of ...
... evil which falsifies hu- man nature in a way that the more wholesome Greek doctrine of the mean avoided ; there is something strained and crabbed in his philosophy which may seem to have carried us across the world from the wisdom of ...
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... evil . But Mr. Summers goes to the other extreme when he slurs over her impudicity as a mere " wantoning beyond the bounds of niggard propriety . " To belittle in this way the importance of ethical truth in literature is to surrender ...
... evil . But Mr. Summers goes to the other extreme when he slurs over her impudicity as a mere " wantoning beyond the bounds of niggard propriety . " To belittle in this way the importance of ethical truth in literature is to surrender ...
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