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... truth of human life was beautiful , and that its truth was its beauty ; and he had discovered that poetry consisted in that instinctive and spon- taneous attitude taken by his mind in making that discovery . These discoveries were made ...
... truth of human life was beautiful , and that its truth was its beauty ; and he had discovered that poetry consisted in that instinctive and spon- taneous attitude taken by his mind in making that discovery . These discoveries were made ...
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... truth , truth beauty , ' - that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know . In a sense the truth which Keats expressed in those words , and in the letter in which he tried to show the means by which man could attain to the ...
... truth , truth beauty , ' - that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know . In a sense the truth which Keats expressed in those words , and in the letter in which he tried to show the means by which man could attain to the ...
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... truth profounder than any economic truth : a truth which , if it is disregarded , will assuredly turn even the recognition of economic truth into a diaboli . cal force making not for the salvation but the devastation of man- kind . The ...
... truth profounder than any economic truth : a truth which , if it is disregarded , will assuredly turn even the recognition of economic truth into a diaboli . cal force making not for the salvation but the devastation of man- kind . The ...
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