English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 255
... spirit , and they are them- selves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifesta- tions ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age . Poets 1195 are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of ...
... spirit , and they are them- selves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifesta- tions ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age . Poets 1195 are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of ...
Page 261
... spirit of all knowledge ' : our religion , parading evidences such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy , pluming itself on its 35 reasonings about causation and finite and infinite being ; what are they but ...
... spirit of all knowledge ' : our religion , parading evidences such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy , pluming itself on its 35 reasonings about causation and finite and infinite being ; what are they but ...
Page 287
... spirit which knows all things . But if you pick up a novel , you realize immediately that infinity is just a 45 ... spirit , the message or teaching of the philosopher or the saint , isn't alive at all , but just a tremulation upon the ...
... spirit which knows all things . But if you pick up a novel , you realize immediately that infinity is just a 45 ... spirit , the message or teaching of the philosopher or the saint , isn't alive at all , but just a tremulation upon the ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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