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Page 107
... thought are spiritual ' . One respects him for this caginess , as one respects Spurgeon , on the opposite side of the argument , for finding the connection between Boehme and Newton ' almost certain ' . For the truth seems to be that ...
... thought are spiritual ' . One respects him for this caginess , as one respects Spurgeon , on the opposite side of the argument , for finding the connection between Boehme and Newton ' almost certain ' . For the truth seems to be that ...
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... thought is Hardy's thought ' thought is a disease of flesh ' . Behind them both , as often behind another contemporary , Thomas Mann , lies the conception of the artist or the thinker as an individual carrying the curse of a society ...
... thought is Hardy's thought ' thought is a disease of flesh ' . Behind them both , as often behind another contemporary , Thomas Mann , lies the conception of the artist or the thinker as an individual carrying the curse of a society ...
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... thought it quite feasible that St Paul's in London might supplant St Peter's as the metropolitan cathedral of international Christendom - hence the line in his ' Hymn for the Day of St Philip and St James ' , ' In the choir of Christ ...
... thought it quite feasible that St Paul's in London might supplant St Peter's as the metropolitan cathedral of international Christendom - hence the line in his ' Hymn for the Day of St Philip and St James ' , ' In the choir of Christ ...
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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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