The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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... Merlin and Vivien . At the same time Enid was divided into two , The Marriage of Geraint and Geraint and Enid , so that the completed poem consists of twelve idylls . I. 2 The word ' idyll ' originally means ' little picture , ' and ...
... Merlin and Vivien . At the same time Enid was divided into two , The Marriage of Geraint and Geraint and Enid , so that the completed poem consists of twelve idylls . I. 2 The word ' idyll ' originally means ' little picture , ' and ...
Page xii
... Merlin and Lancelot for making their personages , whom they imagine to have lived in the fifth century , think and speak like men and women of the thirteenth and fourteenth . The tale then as completed has a definite moral aim . It is ...
... Merlin and Lancelot for making their personages , whom they imagine to have lived in the fifth century , think and speak like men and women of the thirteenth and fourteenth . The tale then as completed has a definite moral aim . It is ...
Page xiii
... become apparent . They turn our attention away from the court , so as to give time for the evil to grow . It would not be possible to pass without a violent shock from Gareth and Lynetle to Merlin and Vivien INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... become apparent . They turn our attention away from the court , so as to give time for the evil to grow . It would not be possible to pass without a violent shock from Gareth and Lynetle to Merlin and Vivien INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... Merlin and Vivien , and in these we realise how far the evil has spread . The tragedy of the two brothers is directly due to loss of faith in Guinevere's purity ; and Merlin with all his varied powers falls a prey to the seductions of ...
... Merlin and Vivien , and in these we realise how far the evil has spread . The tragedy of the two brothers is directly due to loss of faith in Guinevere's purity ; and Merlin with all his varied powers falls a prey to the seductions of ...
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... Merlin's chair was perilous , but perilous for good as well as for evil . The teaching really is this , that religious impulses like other impulses must be chastened and kept within due bounds : we must not expect to have the vision ...
... Merlin's chair was perilous , but perilous for good as well as for evil . The teaching really is this , that religious impulses like other impulses must be chastened and kept within due bounds : we must not expect to have the vision ...
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