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... imagination . Without a sense of religious beauty the imaginative power of most Scots has atrophied . Without aesthetic sense and without historical reverence they easily fall into the errors of an overdeveloped intellectualism : whence ...
... imagination . Without a sense of religious beauty the imaginative power of most Scots has atrophied . Without aesthetic sense and without historical reverence they easily fall into the errors of an overdeveloped intellectualism : whence ...
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... imagination to present the essential and reserved part in its every possible relation , and point of view - and all this connected with so much of the plain savoir faire of actual existence , and such a thorough scorn of mystification ...
... imagination to present the essential and reserved part in its every possible relation , and point of view - and all this connected with so much of the plain savoir faire of actual existence , and such a thorough scorn of mystification ...
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... Imagination , carrying out the summit boldly and roundly , in a style to which the heads of very few poets present any thing comparable - while over this again there is a grand apex of high and solemn Veneration and Love - such as might ...
... Imagination , carrying out the summit boldly and roundly , in a style to which the heads of very few poets present any thing comparable - while over this again there is a grand apex of high and solemn Veneration and Love - such as might ...
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