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- A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an…
- And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had…
- Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no…
- Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which…
- That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what…
- The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by…
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