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... purpose . If at first sight it is con- fined to the ' other world ' , he has given to the narrative a character of full and vivid humanity ; partly by making it , in one aspect , an allegory of human life - we have his own authority for ...
... purpose . If at first sight it is con- fined to the ' other world ' , he has given to the narrative a character of full and vivid humanity ; partly by making it , in one aspect , an allegory of human life - we have his own authority for ...
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... purpose ; it was only at a later stage , as experience was accumulated and thought was developed , that it rose to a unique posi- tion in the poet's mind , and became recognised as a fit vehicle for his ripest wisdom and his highest ...
... purpose ; it was only at a later stage , as experience was accumulated and thought was developed , that it rose to a unique posi- tion in the poet's mind , and became recognised as a fit vehicle for his ripest wisdom and his highest ...
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... purpose . This purpose was what moved them to write ; they made it their life's work to embody it in a great work of art . Their peculiar distinction , and the core of their achievement , is the process of fusing and unifying the ...
... purpose . This purpose was what moved them to write ; they made it their life's work to embody it in a great work of art . Their peculiar distinction , and the core of their achievement , is the process of fusing and unifying the ...
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Aeneas Aeneid appeal artist aspect Augustus battle of Actium battle of Benevento Beatrice beauty believe Bible century chapter Christian Cino da Pistoia conception consciousness culture Dante Dante's Divine Comedy earth embodied Empire essential ethical European evil expression fact Faust feel four poets Georgics Ghibelline give Goethe's Guelphs Guido Cavalcanti Heaven Hell human idea ideal imagination impression individual inspiration intellectual interest justice Karl Barth knowledge language light literature live long poem man's Mephistopheles Milton and Goethe mind modern myth nature Paradise Lost passions past perhaps philosophy picture Plato poet-prophets poet's poetry political present problem problem of Evil prophet Purgatory purpose reader realise reality Reason recognise religion Roman Rome seems sense significance single speaking Spinoza spirit story supreme things thought tion true truth unconscious unity Universe Virgil Western civilisation whole wisdom words writes