On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History ...Chapman & Hall, 1897 - 255 pages |
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Page v
... ; Shakspeare 78 LECTURE IV THE HERO AS PRIEST . Luther ; Reformation : Knox ; Puritanism LECTURE V THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS . Johnson , Rousseau , Burns 435921 a 2 115 154 LECTURE VI THE HERO AS KING . Cromwell , Napoleon.
... ; Shakspeare 78 LECTURE IV THE HERO AS PRIEST . Luther ; Reformation : Knox ; Puritanism LECTURE V THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS . Johnson , Rousseau , Burns 435921 a 2 115 154 LECTURE VI THE HERO AS KING . Cromwell , Napoleon.
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... Burns of the third . Indeed , the presence of the last in this particular company is as mysterious , as the collocation of his two companions Johnson and Rousseau , the former of whom , it may be remembered , observed of the latter ...
... Burns of the third . Indeed , the presence of the last in this particular company is as mysterious , as the collocation of his two companions Johnson and Rousseau , the former of whom , it may be remembered , observed of the latter ...
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... Burns of Tam o ' Shanter and the matchless lyrics . Worship in the latter case begins and ends with a state of the emotions ; in the former case it aims at , and is only completed by , the adoption of a rule of conduct . · And in effect ...
... Burns of Tam o ' Shanter and the matchless lyrics . Worship in the latter case begins and ends with a state of the emotions ; in the former case it aims at , and is only completed by , the adoption of a rule of conduct . · And in effect ...
Page xi
... Burns in the ' Hero as Man of Letters . ' But , on the whole , an end - to - end perusal of the volume produces an effect of monotony rare in Carlyle , and diversified only by a more than Carlylean inconsistency . On the same page of ...
... Burns in the ' Hero as Man of Letters . ' But , on the whole , an end - to - end perusal of the volume produces an effect of monotony rare in Carlyle , and diversified only by a more than Carlylean inconsistency . On the same page of ...
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... Burns ; I hope to make it appear that these are all originally of one stuff ; that only by the world's reception of them , and the shapes they assume , are they so immeasurably diverse . The worship of Odin astonishes us , -to fall ...
... Burns ; I hope to make it appear that these are all originally of one stuff ; that only by the world's reception of them , and the shapes they assume , are they so immeasurably diverse . The worship of Odin astonishes us , -to fall ...
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