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... John Morley on Emerson -- defects in Emerson's moral treatment - man the crown of nature - race - develop- ment - the Godlike in man - Emerson on the soul - Duty- Freewill and Fate - self - renunciation - the " Holy Ghost " - spiritual ...
... John Morley on Emerson -- defects in Emerson's moral treatment - man the crown of nature - race - develop- ment - the Godlike in man - Emerson on the soul - Duty- Freewill and Fate - self - renunciation - the " Holy Ghost " - spiritual ...
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... John Morley remarks , such a masterpiece as Brown- ing's " Ring and the Book " is nowise compar- able . Not without fitness has it been styled in Germany a world - epic or Welt - epos , so vast its range , so wondrous its universality ...
... John Morley remarks , such a masterpiece as Brown- ing's " Ring and the Book " is nowise compar- able . Not without fitness has it been styled in Germany a world - epic or Welt - epos , so vast its range , so wondrous its universality ...
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... John " has it , " that surly spirit , melancholy , " made the poet's spirit " heavy . " Though we may say that there is melancholy -and dreamy wistful regret , in fact , overmuch sadness in the later Tennyson as in Arnold , whose ...
... John " has it , " that surly spirit , melancholy , " made the poet's spirit " heavy . " Though we may say that there is melancholy -and dreamy wistful regret , in fact , overmuch sadness in the later Tennyson as in Arnold , whose ...
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... John Morley in think- ing that Emerson lacked the deep vision which , we have seen , Dante possessed , and in virtue of which the foul , no less than fair , capabilities of mankind stood open to his gaze . The profit- able view may , no ...
... John Morley in think- ing that Emerson lacked the deep vision which , we have seen , Dante possessed , and in virtue of which the foul , no less than fair , capabilities of mankind stood open to his gaze . The profit- able view may , no ...
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... John , " Shakespeare's , 88 . Kingsley , Tennyson and , 85 , 86 , 95 . Law , Emerson and , 125 - Tenny- son and , 114 . Leibnitz , optimism of , 45 , 46 . Lessing , 44 . Lewes , ' Faust ' and , 61 - Goethe and , 56 . Libertarians , 9 ...
... John , " Shakespeare's , 88 . Kingsley , Tennyson and , 85 , 86 , 95 . Law , Emerson and , 125 - Tenny- son and , 114 . Leibnitz , optimism of , 45 , 46 . Lessing , 44 . Lewes , ' Faust ' and , 61 - Goethe and , 56 . Libertarians , 9 ...
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