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" Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the importation of Divine personages from any antique Mythology as ready-made sources or channels of Causation, even in verse, and excluded the celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as... "
Scribner's Magazine ... - Page 138
1925
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The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse: The dynasts; an epic drama ...

Thomas Hardy - 1904 - 442 pages
...the celestial machinery of, say Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same. These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only, that of the Pities, approximates...
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The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts ..., Part 1

Thomas Hardy - 1904 - 270 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same. These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only — that of the Pities —...
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The Dial, Volumes 36-37

Francis Fisher Browne - 1904 - 878 pages
...machinery of, say, ' Paradise Lost,' as peremptorily as that of the < Iliad ' or the < Eddas.' And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same." This explanation, which is also a confession of faith (of a lack of faith, some will say, with too...
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The Dial, Volumes 36-37

Francis Fisher Browne - 1904 - 870 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, ' Paradise Lost/ as peremptorily as that of the ' Iliad ' or the ' Eddas.' And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same." This explanation, which is also a confession of faith (of a lack of faith, some will say, with too...
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The Dynasts, Volume 1

Thomas Hardy - 1904 - 270 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same. These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only—that of the Pities—approximates...
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Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Volume 41

1904 - 886 pages
...cannot bring himself to apply " He" to God! " " The abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusion to the First or Fundamental Energy seemed a necessary...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same." This is sheer poppy-cock ! Mr. Hardy may prefer to speak of God as " It " because there is something...
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The Dynasts: An Epic-drama of the War with Napoleon, in Three ..., Volume 2

Thomas Hardy - 1910 - 572 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or^ the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same. These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only, that of the Pities, approximates...
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The Moderns: Essays in Literary Criticism

John Freeman - 1917 - 354 pages
...speaks curiously of the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusion to " It," as the necessary consequence of the " long abandonment by thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same." Upon this point we need not raise an endless dispute. Let us rather glance at the activity of these...
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The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 372 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same.'' Accordingly he arranged a group of Phantom Intelligences that supply adequately a Chorus and a philosophical...
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The Bookman, Volume 46

1918 - 840 pages
...celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions...thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same." Accordingly he arranged a group of Phantom IntelliAdvance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century...
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