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... beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a more perfect ...
... beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a more perfect ...
Page 196
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
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... beauty . It is not only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better ; it is rather that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to their beauty . That , I sup- pose , is why certain works whose ...
... beauty . It is not only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better ; it is rather that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to their beauty . That , I sup- pose , is why certain works whose ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth