A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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14 INTEODUCTOEY ESSAY.<br />
higher,—when the positive yet conflicting<br />
facts shall again precipitate themselves under<br />
a harmonising law, and one more degree will<br />
be apparent for a poet to climb in that<br />
mighty ladder, of which, however<br />
cloudinvolved<br />
and undefined may glimmer the<br />
topmost step, the world dares no longer doubt<br />
that its gradations ascend.<br />
Such being the two kinds of artists, it is<br />
naturally, as I have shown, with the biography<br />
of the subjective poet that we have the<br />
deeper concern.<br />
Apart from his recorded<br />
life altogether, we might fail to determine<br />
with satisfactory precision to what class his<br />
productions belong, and what amount of<br />
praise is assignable to the producer.<br />
'Certainly,<br />
in the face of any conspicuous achievement<br />
of genius, philosophy, no less than<br />
sympathetic instinct, warrants our beUef in a<br />
great moral purpose having mainly inspired<br />
even where it does not visibly look out of
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