The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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Page 123
... present , visible world and an eternal truth to which the former stood in an ironic relation . The gist of the Pauline insistence that things seen by the eye are temporal , and that we must redirect our gaze towards eter- nity ( Phill ...
... present , visible world and an eternal truth to which the former stood in an ironic relation . The gist of the Pauline insistence that things seen by the eye are temporal , and that we must redirect our gaze towards eter- nity ( Phill ...
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... present eye praises the present object : Then marvel not , thou great and complete man , That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax , Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not . ( Tro . 3. 3. 180-84 ) Confronted ...
... present eye praises the present object : Then marvel not , thou great and complete man , That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax , Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not . ( Tro . 3. 3. 180-84 ) Confronted ...
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... present : The present eye praises the present object : Then marvel not , thou great and complete man , That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax , Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not . ( 180-84 ) Ulysses ...
... present : The present eye praises the present object : Then marvel not , thou great and complete man , That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax , Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not . ( 180-84 ) Ulysses ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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