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... moral grandeur , moral force ; but he is , for the purposes of his under- taking , disastrously single - minded and simple - minded . He reveals everywhere a dominating sense of righteous- ness and a complete incapacity to question or ...
... moral grandeur , moral force ; but he is , for the purposes of his under- taking , disastrously single - minded and simple - minded . He reveals everywhere a dominating sense of righteous- ness and a complete incapacity to question or ...
Page 117
... moral sense in the ordinary meaning of morality ' : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes , And pause awhile from letters , to be wise . Both the professional and the moralist are felt in the characteristic weight that makes his ...
... moral sense in the ordinary meaning of morality ' : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes , And pause awhile from letters , to be wise . Both the professional and the moralist are felt in the characteristic weight that makes his ...
Page 171
... moral training . No one should , after what has been said , find it neces- sary to impute to the critic at this ... moral culture , which to him were nature . He may have been a Romantic , ' but it would be misleading to think of him as ...
... moral training . No one should , after what has been said , find it neces- sary to impute to the critic at this ... moral culture , which to him were nature . He may have been a Romantic , ' but it would be misleading to think of him as ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth