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How he could have portrayed it all , —the glare , the vice , the riotous profanity , the barbarous passion , the squalor and all that sum of wrong inflicted and endured ! But we find his memories of London , as of other places , aflame ...
How he could have portrayed it all , —the glare , the vice , the riotous profanity , the barbarous passion , the squalor and all that sum of wrong inflicted and endured ! But we find his memories of London , as of other places , aflame ...
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Here in the world of lawlessness it is different : “ To thyself be enough ; ” heed nothing but your own pleasures and passions and ambitions . It is a choice which confronts every soul . If we make ourselves the centre of our world ...
Here in the world of lawlessness it is different : “ To thyself be enough ; ” heed nothing but your own pleasures and passions and ambitions . It is a choice which confronts every soul . If we make ourselves the centre of our world ...
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He is able to appreciate in some measure this sacred love , and to see that if he accepts it , this must be the supreme passion of his being . He knows also that to possess it , he must himself be changed . It is not sufficient that he ...
He is able to appreciate in some measure this sacred love , and to see that if he accepts it , this must be the supreme passion of his being . He knows also that to possess it , he must himself be changed . It is not sufficient that he ...
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Character is a spiritual production moulded out of the thoughts , passions , and aptitudes of life . And here we find one of the most daring conceptions of the drama . An evil character , declares the Button Moulder , which has sinned ...
Character is a spiritual production moulded out of the thoughts , passions , and aptitudes of life . And here we find one of the most daring conceptions of the drama . An evil character , declares the Button Moulder , which has sinned ...
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It is because this “ Art of Life ” has been so little considered , that we find such vast stores of wasted material — thoughts , imagination , passions , volitions , —which have been incorporated into no finished structure .
It is because this “ Art of Life ” has been so little considered , that we find such vast stores of wasted material — thoughts , imagination , passions , volitions , —which have been incorporated into no finished structure .
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| Title | Spiritual Voices in Modern Literature |
| Author | Trevor H. Davies |
| Publisher | George H. Doran Company, 1919 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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