The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... never dies , but by process of internal growth , of modification , and of accretion acquires a purer spirit and a new and higher form , then , since truth was never yet conceived of error ( ex nihilo nihil fit ) , the truth now ...
... never dies , but by process of internal growth , of modification , and of accretion acquires a purer spirit and a new and higher form , then , since truth was never yet conceived of error ( ex nihilo nihil fit ) , the truth now ...
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... never fully revealed ; surely this new republic of ours , no less than her prototypes by Tyrrhenian and Ægean seas , utters , in her queenly form and flowing robes , a spirit , a truth , a potential poetry , and a beauty of art , the ...
... never fully revealed ; surely this new republic of ours , no less than her prototypes by Tyrrhenian and Ægean seas , utters , in her queenly form and flowing robes , a spirit , a truth , a potential poetry , and a beauty of art , the ...
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... never possessed . For the diverse and contradictory significations that have in recent years been proposed for one and the same myth could not all , at any one time , have been entertained by the myth - makers . On the other hand , the ...
... never possessed . For the diverse and contradictory significations that have in recent years been proposed for one and the same myth could not all , at any one time , have been entertained by the myth - makers . On the other hand , the ...
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... never concocted with a view to instruction . According to their subjects , æsthetic myths are either historic or romantic . ( a ) If historic , they utilize events which have a skeleton of fact . They supply flesh and sinew of divine or ...
... never concocted with a view to instruction . According to their subjects , æsthetic myths are either historic or romantic . ( a ) If historic , they utilize events which have a skeleton of fact . They supply flesh and sinew of divine or ...
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... never for one instant separated from them , he conceives also two omni- present spiritual influences , of which one illuminates , as the sun , with a constant fire , whatever in humanity is skilful and wise ; and the other , like the ...
... never for one instant separated from them , he conceives also two omni- present spiritual influences , of which one illuminates , as the sun , with a constant fire , whatever in humanity is skilful and wise ; and the other , like the ...
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Common terms and phrases
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