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... action , the progress in understanding that virtue , by the Knight and by the reader who follows his course , takes precedence . Carpe diem is the counsel of the song in the villainess Acrasia's Bowre , and time is marked there by ...
... action , the progress in understanding that virtue , by the Knight and by the reader who follows his course , takes precedence . Carpe diem is the counsel of the song in the villainess Acrasia's Bowre , and time is marked there by ...
Page 95
... action there was ' ideal ' in that it was human action reduced to simpler terms and ' removed ' from more sophisticated civilization , which nonetheless it cast light on . In that ' ideal ' landscape could be presented the essentials of ...
... action there was ' ideal ' in that it was human action reduced to simpler terms and ' removed ' from more sophisticated civilization , which nonetheless it cast light on . In that ' ideal ' landscape could be presented the essentials of ...
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... action where patriotism of the Tudor Renaissance state confronted the ' disorder ' and inimical energy of the savage man — the fierce resistance of a people , if not yet of a nation . The warriors were not outside Christendom , like ...
... action where patriotism of the Tudor Renaissance state confronted the ' disorder ' and inimical energy of the savage man — the fierce resistance of a people , if not yet of a nation . The warriors were not outside Christendom , like ...
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