The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Page 44
... human interest of the poem has also deepened ; in the second canto , while recalling the historic associations of Greece , he sketched no portrait of Athenian poet , sage , or statesman : but , in his description of Switzerland , he ...
... human interest of the poem has also deepened ; in the second canto , while recalling the historic associations of Greece , he sketched no portrait of Athenian poet , sage , or statesman : but , in his description of Switzerland , he ...
Page 64
... humanity . The figure of Prometheus had appealed powerfully to other idealists of the revolutionary age . Goethe , in his storm and stress phase , had seen in him the human creator , shaping men in his own image and scorning God ; and ...
... humanity . The figure of Prometheus had appealed powerfully to other idealists of the revolutionary age . Goethe , in his storm and stress phase , had seen in him the human creator , shaping men in his own image and scorning God ; and ...
Page 297
... humanity changed from a restraint to a motive . Seeley regarded Christianity as natural fellow - feeling or humanity raised to the point of enthusiasm . He did not think that the world could ' do without Christ and his Church . ' Indeed ...
... humanity changed from a restraint to a motive . Seeley regarded Christianity as natural fellow - feeling or humanity raised to the point of enthusiasm . He did not think that the world could ' do without Christ and his Church . ' Indeed ...
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