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... human life presented in such a way that if he , too , has imagi- nation and sympathy , he can live it with none of the in- convenience of the actual experience . The broadening of experience which literature provides is probably its ...
... human life presented in such a way that if he , too , has imagi- nation and sympathy , he can live it with none of the in- convenience of the actual experience . The broadening of experience which literature provides is probably its ...
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... human beings as genuine human beings , can present them to us in intelligible forms with all the concrete- ness of life itself . Fiction can build up individuals , where an ethical treatise is concerned with " the individual . " And ...
... human beings as genuine human beings , can present them to us in intelligible forms with all the concrete- ness of life itself . Fiction can build up individuals , where an ethical treatise is concerned with " the individual . " And ...
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... human life . Above humanity were the gods who order all things . And yet the human will was free to choose , indeed must choose . Consequently there were inevitably moments in which any choice would lead to disaster . Such is the choice ...
... human life . Above humanity were the gods who order all things . And yet the human will was free to choose , indeed must choose . Consequently there were inevitably moments in which any choice would lead to disaster . Such is the choice ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |