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... complete distraction at such a moment in science or art or amusement required qualities that are superhuman or inhuman ; but without obscuring altogether our consciousness of the tragic background of reality , Don Quixote enabled us to ...
... complete distraction at such a moment in science or art or amusement required qualities that are superhuman or inhuman ; but without obscuring altogether our consciousness of the tragic background of reality , Don Quixote enabled us to ...
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... completing his work as champion , critic , and editor of Byron . But the names of the critics who condemned as of the one ... complete manifestation . Never has there been in English literature a more cunningly wrought poetry of artistic ...
... completing his work as champion , critic , and editor of Byron . But the names of the critics who condemned as of the one ... complete manifestation . Never has there been in English literature a more cunningly wrought poetry of artistic ...
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Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 66 seems to me a complete , at least an essential , description of what I mean by a romantic movement , its spirit , and the reaction of that spirit on the form , the vehicle , -an effect at once ...
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 66 seems to me a complete , at least an essential , description of what I mean by a romantic movement , its spirit , and the reaction of that spirit on the form , the vehicle , -an effect at once ...
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