Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... beauty . " Beauty " is such a misused , shop - soiled word by now that perhaps I may be allowed to stop for a minute and define in what sense I am using it . It is the ordinary , obvious sense we mean when we say : " What a beautiful ...
... beauty . " Beauty " is such a misused , shop - soiled word by now that perhaps I may be allowed to stop for a minute and define in what sense I am using it . It is the ordinary , obvious sense we mean when we say : " What a beautiful ...
Page 58
... Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry to Gray , as to any other sensible eighteenth - century gentleman , was primarily a pleasure : and the poet so far from being the priest of a mystery was a purveyor of pleasure- " above the ...
... Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry to Gray , as to any other sensible eighteenth - century gentleman , was primarily a pleasure : and the poet so far from being the priest of a mystery was a purveyor of pleasure- " above the ...
Page 162
... Beauty anyhow . Not the crude beauty of the eye . It was not beauty pure and simple - Bedford Place leading into Russell Square . It was straightness and emptiness of course ; the symmetry of a corridor ; but it was also windows lit up ...
... Beauty anyhow . Not the crude beauty of the eye . It was not beauty pure and simple - Bedford Place leading into Russell Square . It was straightness and emptiness of course ; the symmetry of a corridor ; but it was also windows lit up ...
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