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... moral sentiments is unfortunate ; yet such misinterpretations reflect Bryant's own dilemma in the face of nat- ural beauty . Does nature , after all , unite beauty and moral truth within the same discernible objects , or are there two ...
... moral sentiments is unfortunate ; yet such misinterpretations reflect Bryant's own dilemma in the face of nat- ural beauty . Does nature , after all , unite beauty and moral truth within the same discernible objects , or are there two ...
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... moral behavior of man . The possibility of an intentional shift from the second to the third sections — a change of voice from nature to the poet as Professor Arms has asserted - seems dubious from the available evidence ; but the shift ...
... moral behavior of man . The possibility of an intentional shift from the second to the third sections — a change of voice from nature to the poet as Professor Arms has asserted - seems dubious from the available evidence ; but the shift ...
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... moral and of the natural world . I refer to its adorning and illustrating each by the other — infusing a moral sentiment into natural objects , and bringing images of visible beauty and majesty to heighten the effect of moral sentiment ...
... moral and of the natural world . I refer to its adorning and illustrating each by the other — infusing a moral sentiment into natural objects , and bringing images of visible beauty and majesty to heighten the effect of moral sentiment ...
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