Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... divine knowledge acquired by the soul in its antenatal state . Shelley left Ion imperfect - I thought it better that it should appear as a whole - but at the same time have marked with brackets the passages that have been added ; the ...
... divine knowledge acquired by the soul in its antenatal state . Shelley left Ion imperfect - I thought it better that it should appear as a whole - but at the same time have marked with brackets the passages that have been added ; the ...
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... divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above con- sciousness ; and it is reserved for future genera- tions to contemplate and measure the mighty cause and effect in all the strength and splendour of their union . Even in modern ...
... divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above con- sciousness ; and it is reserved for future genera- tions to contemplate and measure the mighty cause and effect in all the strength and splendour of their union . Even in modern ...
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... divine beauty in life , becomes , from the very veil which it assumes , more active if less dis- gusting : it is a monster for which the corruption of society for ever brings forth new food , which it devours in secret . The drama being ...
... divine beauty in life , becomes , from the very veil which it assumes , more active if less dis- gusting : it is a monster for which the corruption of society for ever brings forth new food , which it devours in secret . The drama being ...
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... Divine Drama , " in the mea- sure of the admiration which they accord to the Hell , Purgatory , and Paradise . The latter is a perpetual hymn of everlasting love . Love , which found a worthy poet in Plato alone of all the ancients ...
... Divine Drama , " in the mea- sure of the admiration which they accord to the Hell , Purgatory , and Paradise . The latter is a perpetual hymn of everlasting love . Love , which found a worthy poet in Plato alone of all the ancients ...
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... divine effluence which their peculiar relations enable them to share , another and yet another succeeds , and new relations are ever developed , the source of an unforeseen and an unconceived delight . The age immediately succeeding to ...
... divine effluence which their peculiar relations enable them to share , another and yet another succeeds , and new relations are ever developed , the source of an unforeseen and an unconceived delight . The age immediately succeeding to ...
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