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... truth and a higher seriousness ( piloσopúтepov kaì στovdaιóтeρov ) . Let us add , therefore , to what we have said , this : that the substance and matter of the best poetry acquire their special character from possessing , in an eminent ...
... truth and a higher seriousness ( piloσopúтepov kaì στovdaιóтeρov ) . Let us add , therefore , to what we have said , this : that the substance and matter of the best poetry acquire their special character from possessing , in an eminent ...
Page 266
... truth : -truth to bare fact in the latter , as to some personal sense of fact , diverted somewhat from men's ordinary sense of it , in the former ; truth there as accuracy , truth here as expression , that finest and most intimate form ...
... truth : -truth to bare fact in the latter , as to some personal sense of fact , diverted somewhat from men's ordinary sense of it , in the former ; truth there as accuracy , truth here as expression , that finest and most intimate form ...
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... truth . The story of Abraham and Isaac is not better established than the story of Odysseus , Penelope , and Eury- clea ; both are legendary . But the Biblical narrator , the Elohist , had to believe in the objective truth of the story ...
... truth . The story of Abraham and Isaac is not better established than the story of Odysseus , Penelope , and Eury- clea ; both are legendary . But the Biblical narrator , the Elohist , had to believe in the objective truth of the story ...
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