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... suggested and made feasible by kind friends, and he wrote to England explaining the necessity for some delay. Soon after his return home he heard of the death of the English publisher, and supposed himself free. But in :875 he was ...
... suggested and made feasible by kind friends, and he wrote to England explaining the necessity for some delay. Soon after his return home he heard of the death of the English publisher, and supposed himself free. But in :875 he was ...
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... suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature i-but death; that the creation is on wheels, in transit, always passing into something else, streaming into something higher; that matter is not what it appears;—that chemistry can blow it ...
... suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature i-but death; that the creation is on wheels, in transit, always passing into something else, streaming into something higher; that matter is not what it appears;—that chemistry can blow it ...
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... echoes. Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of INTRODUCTORY 9.
... echoes. Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of INTRODUCTORY 9.
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... suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read. Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and Writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. We sink to rise :— " None ...
... suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read. Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and Writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. We sink to rise :— " None ...
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... as his life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,-——by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say. Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of 68 POETRY AN D IMAGINATION.
... as his life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,-——by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say. Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of 68 POETRY AN D IMAGINATION.
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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