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We have sometimes spoken as if the search were on our side . “ The history of philosophy , " wrote George Henry Lewes , “ is the history of man's quest for God . ” We pursue , it would seem , One who eludes our groping thought ; we hear ...
We have sometimes spoken as if the search were on our side . “ The history of philosophy , " wrote George Henry Lewes , “ is the history of man's quest for God . ” We pursue , it would seem , One who eludes our groping thought ; we hear ...
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Sometimes such might be desirable to readers - his poetry ; but we need no prose résumé here . The haunting stanza which with slight variations is five times repeated in “ The Hound of Heaven sums up the message : “ But with unhurrying ...
Sometimes such might be desirable to readers - his poetry ; but we need no prose résumé here . The haunting stanza which with slight variations is five times repeated in “ The Hound of Heaven sums up the message : “ But with unhurrying ...
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Drowning men , when rescued , have sometimes told of the vivid recollections of their past life which came to them crowded into the compass of a few seconds , as they hovered between life and death . Peer Gynt saw not merely what he had ...
Drowning men , when rescued , have sometimes told of the vivid recollections of their past life which came to them crowded into the compass of a few seconds , as they hovered between life and death . Peer Gynt saw not merely what he had ...
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A Cathedral has sometimes appeared to us as a poem in stone ; but earth's sublimest poetry is a human life through which God utters the eternal music of righteousness and love . Our poetry is but dull prose compared with this .
A Cathedral has sometimes appeared to us as a poem in stone ; but earth's sublimest poetry is a human life through which God utters the eternal music of righteousness and love . Our poetry is but dull prose compared with this .
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A Cathedral has sometimes appeared to us as a poem in stone ; but earth's sublimest poetry is a human life through which God utters the eternal music of righteousness and love . Our poetry is but dull prose compared with this .
A Cathedral has sometimes appeared to us as a poem in stone ; but earth's sublimest poetry is a human life through which God utters the eternal music of righteousness and love . Our poetry is but dull prose compared with this .
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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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