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... sometimes spoken as if the search were on our side . " The history of philoso- phy , " 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 the ...
... sometimes spoken as if the search were on our side . " The history of philoso- phy , " 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 the ...
Page 18
... 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 the message : " But with unhurrying chase ...
... 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 the message : " But with unhurrying chase ...
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... 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 been , but what he might have been ...
... 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 been , but what he might have been ...
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... 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 . At the close of his ...
... 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 . At the close of his ...
Page 97
... 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 . " " At the close of his ...
... 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 . " " At the close of his ...
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