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Page xvi
... dance of Death , in which all the Nations , with little to choose between them , join hands in imbecile , abominable obedience to Satan's fiddling . Is this " ( so ends the spoken or unspoken protest of my warlike friends ) , " Is this ...
... dance of Death , in which all the Nations , with little to choose between them , join hands in imbecile , abominable obedience to Satan's fiddling . Is this " ( so ends the spoken or unspoken protest of my warlike friends ) , " Is this ...
Page xlii
... Dance of Death with the stealthy assistance of his irre- sponsible bravoes Delusion and Confusion , no less than with the visible and audible co - operation of the loftiest and the vilest of our Passions , all playing away , cheek by ...
... Dance of Death with the stealthy assistance of his irre- sponsible bravoes Delusion and Confusion , no less than with the visible and audible co - operation of the loftiest and the vilest of our Passions , all playing away , cheek by ...
Page xliii
... dance such as takes place in Passion Week on Spanish altar- steps , terrible no doubt , and tragic , but decent , edifying , nay sacramentally purifying alike to devout performers and spectators . But although these disappointed ...
... dance such as takes place in Passion Week on Spanish altar- steps , terrible no doubt , and tragic , but decent , edifying , nay sacramentally purifying alike to devout performers and spectators . But although these disappointed ...
Page xlvii
... dance for ever in Satan's ballets . And this brings me to the chief moral of this war - play of mine , both of which will doubtless strike some readers as what they call immoral . The thesis summed up in my allegory and brought home to ...
... dance for ever in Satan's ballets . And this brings me to the chief moral of this war - play of mine , both of which will doubtless strike some readers as what they call immoral . The thesis summed up in my allegory and brought home to ...
Page 19
... Dance of Death such as the poor unsophisticated Middle Ages never imagined in their most celebrated nightmares . SATAN ( who has politely suppressed a yawn ) . You are rightly informed , as befits the Muse of History . But that is not ...
... Dance of Death such as the poor unsophisticated Middle Ages never imagined in their most celebrated nightmares . SATAN ( who has politely suppressed a yawn ) . You are rightly informed , as befits the Muse of History . But that is not ...
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2ND VOICE Adventure Adversary æsthetic AGES-TO-COME altruism Ballet Master Death become belief belligerent Bertrand Russell Brachycephalous Brobdingnag Cæsarea called cinema shows creatures dance dangerous dear Clio decent Delusion and Confusion desire emotional enemy evil existence eyes fact feeling friends future German Gog and Magog gramophone wheezes habits hand happens harmonium Hatred hence Heroism honour horror human Idealism implies Indignation individual IST VOICE Justice kind larning less look Lord Satan man's mankind means merely mind moral moralists moreover Muse of History Nations nature neighbours never once one's Orchestra ourselves passions Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor preference present qualities Reality reason recognize religion require result Romain Rolland sacrifice self-sacrifice sense side soul spiritual suffering sure Themistocles things thought tion truth turn war's Waste Waster Widow Fear words writing