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... emotions have laws of which articulate reason is unaware . Rationalism mocked at imagination and emotion , though it could not destroy them ; it strangled Byron's religious hopes and purposefulness , but it could not prevent imaginative ...
... emotions have laws of which articulate reason is unaware . Rationalism mocked at imagination and emotion , though it could not destroy them ; it strangled Byron's religious hopes and purposefulness , but it could not prevent imaginative ...
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... emotion , a thing of momentary passion , a relief without any other ultimate purpose- " the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake . " 52 It is , like his travels , an outburst of his general restlessness , no ...
... emotion , a thing of momentary passion , a relief without any other ultimate purpose- " the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake . " 52 It is , like his travels , an outburst of his general restlessness , no ...
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... emotion for its own sake is bad , until assured by tradition , bound by form , and purified by taste . It is a contradiction , to a great extent , of those convictions of dilettanteism that we have been tracing . And yet it is largely a ...
... emotion for its own sake is bad , until assured by tradition , bound by form , and purified by taste . It is a contradiction , to a great extent , of those convictions of dilettanteism that we have been tracing . And yet it is largely a ...
Contents
THE AGE OF REASON | 21 |
REBIRTH | 123 |
DRAMA AND PROPAGANDA | 152 |
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