Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists ...G. P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
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... human perfection in an internal condition , in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper , as distinguished from our animality . It places it in the ever - increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expan- sion of those ...
... human perfection in an internal condition , in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper , as distinguished from our animality . It places it in the ever - increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expan- sion of those ...
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... human nature than poetry , because it has worked on a broader scale for perfection , and with greater masses of men . But the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all its sides , which is the dominant idea of poetry , is a ...
... human nature than poetry , because it has worked on a broader scale for perfection , and with greater masses of men . But the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all its sides , which is the dominant idea of poetry , is a ...
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... human race in general , and , indeed , having regard to the Greeks themselves , we must own - a premature attempt , an attempt which for success needed the moral and religious fibre in humanity to be more braced and developed than it ...
... human race in general , and , indeed , having regard to the Greeks themselves , we must own - a premature attempt , an attempt which for success needed the moral and religious fibre in humanity to be more braced and developed than it ...
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THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE By W Irving | 3 |
THE WORLD OF BOOKS | 25 |
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES | 43 |
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