Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... mind the so - called irrelevancy , he rejoices at the spectacle of Cleopatra's arts at work , he . feels no relaxation of tension anywhere in the play . The impression left in his memory is of a harmonious radiance in the light of which ...
... mind the so - called irrelevancy , he rejoices at the spectacle of Cleopatra's arts at work , he . feels no relaxation of tension anywhere in the play . The impression left in his memory is of a harmonious radiance in the light of which ...
Page 136
... mind . He simply says that they acted on him literally like a push in the back : before he knows what he is doing he has made the fourteen - foot jump . No elaborate analysis could have conveyed so forcibly the obsessive , dominating ...
... mind . He simply says that they acted on him literally like a push in the back : before he knows what he is doing he has made the fourteen - foot jump . No elaborate analysis could have conveyed so forcibly the obsessive , dominating ...
Page 160
... mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial , fantastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an incessant shower of innumerable atoms ; and as they fall , as ...
... mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial , fantastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an incessant shower of innumerable atoms ; and as they fall , as ...
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