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... existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive of it, but because it agrees with ourselves, and the universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest, is the house of health and life. In spite of all the joys of poets and ...
... existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive of it, but because it agrees with ourselves, and the universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest, is the house of health and life. In spite of all the joys of poets and ...
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... their religion that what we call Nature, the external world, has no real existence,— is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons, — self, even, — are successive maia: (deceptions) t4 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... their religion that what we call Nature, the external world, has no real existence,— is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons, — self, even, — are successive maia: (deceptions) t4 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
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... existence acts independently of the master's impulse, so the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term, and its possibility is an unfathomable ...
... existence acts independently of the master's impulse, so the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term, and its possibility is an unfathomable ...
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Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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