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... idea was a broadening and weaken- ing of the older , stricter standards . Once it was admitted that there was a higher court than mere good taste and common sense , taste , as it had been conceived , was doomed to a gradual decay . It ...
... idea was a broadening and weaken- ing of the older , stricter standards . Once it was admitted that there was a higher court than mere good taste and common sense , taste , as it had been conceived , was doomed to a gradual decay . It ...
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... idea , if not foreign to one side of his nature , could hardly become a moving prin- ciple of the whole man . It is a stimulus , not a belief , an intoxication , not a fixed idea which he would affirm in his calmer moments . He is in a ...
... idea , if not foreign to one side of his nature , could hardly become a moving prin- ciple of the whole man . It is a stimulus , not a belief , an intoxication , not a fixed idea which he would affirm in his calmer moments . He is in a ...
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... idea of what a mystery was like , beyond the notion that it treated heavenly subjects , made use of Biblical material , and was addressed to the religious feelings of its audience . His notion of the form , according to Schaff- ner's ...
... idea of what a mystery was like , beyond the notion that it treated heavenly subjects , made use of Biblical material , and was addressed to the religious feelings of its audience . His notion of the form , according to Schaff- ner's ...
Contents
THE AGE OF REASON | 21 |
REBIRTH | 123 |
DRAMA AND PROPAGANDA | 152 |
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