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Page 41
... feel those ' soft and sweete airs ' , and he makes us feel his love of them ; but he is also arguing about them , asking and answering questions . He asks whether the spirit in Nature ( or in music ) is felt only by a spiritual sort of ...
... feel those ' soft and sweete airs ' , and he makes us feel his love of them ; but he is also arguing about them , asking and answering questions . He asks whether the spirit in Nature ( or in music ) is felt only by a spiritual sort of ...
Page 135
... feel as it wants to feel . Hence , ever since Le Neveu de Rameau , the Romantic fascination with the hypocrite , the actor , and the double ; and its ever more frantic attempts to surprise itself into feeling what it is not prepared to feel ...
... feel as it wants to feel . Hence , ever since Le Neveu de Rameau , the Romantic fascination with the hypocrite , the actor , and the double ; and its ever more frantic attempts to surprise itself into feeling what it is not prepared to feel ...
Page 256
... feeling as he does ; what he has to do is to feel thus and thus , and trust the feeling . On no other reading is there justification for those lines which seem at first so deplorable : His head he raised - there was in sight , -- It ...
... feeling as he does ; what he has to do is to feel thus and thus , and trust the feeling . On no other reading is there justification for those lines which seem at first so deplorable : His head he raised - there was in sight , -- It ...
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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