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... living , by Carlyle's thirst for excitement , and yet spiritually stagnant or stationary , he appears to the imagination like Jonathan Edwards's spider , suspended over chaos and old night , turning " this way and that like sick men ...
... living , by Carlyle's thirst for excitement , and yet spiritually stagnant or stationary , he appears to the imagination like Jonathan Edwards's spider , suspended over chaos and old night , turning " this way and that like sick men ...
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... living his inner life so openly , so straight- forwardly , turned on himself a more insistent spotlight of literary curiosity than had any man since , perhaps , Montaigne . He was to enjoy its glory and to suffer for it . T CHAPTER II ...
... living his inner life so openly , so straight- forwardly , turned on himself a more insistent spotlight of literary curiosity than had any man since , perhaps , Montaigne . He was to enjoy its glory and to suffer for it . T CHAPTER II ...
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... living corre- sponded another protest against all excess in art and manners . The ideal of eighteenth - century England was the man of the world , mingling freely with his fellows , seeing facts as they are , and differentiated by no ...
... living corre- sponded another protest against all excess in art and manners . The ideal of eighteenth - century England was the man of the world , mingling freely with his fellows , seeing facts as they are , and differentiated by no ...
Contents
THE AGE OF REASON | 21 |
REBIRTH | 123 |
DRAMA AND PROPAGANDA | 152 |
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