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 1381925Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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 —... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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