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... certainly admit , shared the defects and blindnesses of his time . But at least we have seen how well he learnt what Beatrice had sent him into that deep material Hell to learn . For who , like Dante , has shown what sin both is and ...
... certainly admit , shared the defects and blindnesses of his time . But at least we have seen how well he learnt what Beatrice had sent him into that deep material Hell to learn . For who , like Dante , has shown what sin both is and ...
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... certainly never disen- tangle from love of her , the rapture of the poet in Divine goodness and beneficence . Who , like Dante - by his nine spheres of the Blessed in Paradise - has taught us the degrees of sanctity , of bliss , and of ...
... certainly never disen- tangle from love of her , the rapture of the poet in Divine goodness and beneficence . Who , like Dante - by his nine spheres of the Blessed in Paradise - has taught us the degrees of sanctity , of bliss , and of ...
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... certainly no broader or more ultimate basis to which such mystery can be referred than just to that of His Divine - human Personality . What a symbol Beatrice has now become of our deeper , more illumined knowledge of God ! How Dante ...
... certainly no broader or more ultimate basis to which such mystery can be referred than just to that of His Divine - human Personality . What a symbol Beatrice has now become of our deeper , more illumined knowledge of God ! How Dante ...
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... certainly no harbinger of reform- ing ideas , and his finely speculative genius kept well within the bounds of Catholicism ; but I rather agree with those historians of mediæval thought who opine that his scho- lasticism has more to ...
... certainly no harbinger of reform- ing ideas , and his finely speculative genius kept well within the bounds of Catholicism ; but I rather agree with those historians of mediæval thought who opine that his scho- lasticism has more to ...
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... certainly more of a teacher - more than even our own Protean Shakespeare can be claimed to be . Let us set out from the encyclopædic Faust as symbolical , in his pangs of insatiable desire , his Titanic strength of aspiration - his ...
... certainly more of a teacher - more than even our own Protean Shakespeare can be claimed to be . Let us set out from the encyclopædic Faust as symbolical , in his pangs of insatiable desire , his Titanic strength of aspiration - his ...
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