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... active surrender , at another time the waiting , at another time the searching , predominates in the total experience behind the writing . But that experience is never defined , since we are never told to what it surrenders , what it ...
... active surrender , at another time the waiting , at another time the searching , predominates in the total experience behind the writing . But that experience is never defined , since we are never told to what it surrenders , what it ...
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... active Mind , or Spirit cannot be an Idea or like an Idea . Whence it shou'd seem to follow , that those Words which denote an active Principle , Soul , or Spirit do not , in a strict and proper Sense , stand for Ideas : And yet they ...
... active Mind , or Spirit cannot be an Idea or like an Idea . Whence it shou'd seem to follow , that those Words which denote an active Principle , Soul , or Spirit do not , in a strict and proper Sense , stand for Ideas : And yet they ...
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... active faculties in suspense , one finger beating time to a bell sounding and echoing in the depths of his own mind ; ... One brings this down to earth by rephrasing thus : the mind that is active produces poetry that finds room for ...
... active faculties in suspense , one finger beating time to a bell sounding and echoing in the depths of his own mind ; ... One brings this down to earth by rephrasing thus : the mind that is active produces poetry that finds room for ...
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