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Page 84
... stands , His blood - red tresses deepening in the sun , With death - shot glowing in his fiery hands , And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; ( I , xxxix ) -anticipates the phrasing of the bullring stanzas and centres the whole ...
... stands , His blood - red tresses deepening in the sun , With death - shot glowing in his fiery hands , And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; ( I , xxxix ) -anticipates the phrasing of the bullring stanzas and centres the whole ...
Page 143
... stands as a counterpoise to the hopeful aspiration of ' If that High World ' . Here we are neither in the Sufic nor the Christian world , but in the bleak afterlife of classical and neo - Platonic speculation . When coldness wraps this ...
... stands as a counterpoise to the hopeful aspiration of ' If that High World ' . Here we are neither in the Sufic nor the Christian world , but in the bleak afterlife of classical and neo - Platonic speculation . When coldness wraps this ...
Page 338
... stands for an ' existential cave ' , if I may coin the phrase : a ' black hole ' in history initiated at the point when the Catholic sun collapsed upon itself , and created a destructive maw into which the whole of subsequent history is ...
... stands for an ' existential cave ' , if I may coin the phrase : a ' black hole ' in history initiated at the point when the Catholic sun collapsed upon itself , and created a destructive maw into which the whole of subsequent history is ...
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