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... kind which made a life - long specialization in literary criticism impossible . It involved a kind of resignation and , at the same time , a kind of purposiveness which almost amounted to a state of being ' possessed ' . His pen was at ...
... kind which made a life - long specialization in literary criticism impossible . It involved a kind of resignation and , at the same time , a kind of purposiveness which almost amounted to a state of being ' possessed ' . His pen was at ...
Page 92
... kind of order than the geometric or intellectual ; there is organic order . And that is the kind of order we should naturally suppose to be appropriate to human experience . That also is the kind of order we find in the highest ...
... kind of order than the geometric or intellectual ; there is organic order . And that is the kind of order we should naturally suppose to be appropriate to human experience . That also is the kind of order we find in the highest ...
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... kind of critical loyalty . It is not possible , as he himself foresaw , to be deeply moved by his work— perhaps one should say to be moved by his work at all - without recog- nizing his passionate sincerity . Of that sincerity his very ...
... kind of critical loyalty . It is not possible , as he himself foresaw , to be deeply moved by his work— perhaps one should say to be moved by his work at all - without recog- nizing his passionate sincerity . Of that sincerity his very ...
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