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Chapter 7 THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE

Word Count: 469    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

, and those who have not. It seems reasonable to say that the poets who have habits of infinity, of space-conquering (like our vast machines), who seek the suggestive and immeasurab

ared, the Stucco-Greek mind grudgingly admitted that he was 'effective.' A man who could use words as other men used things, who could put a pen down on paper in such a way as to lift men out from the boundaries of their lives and make them live in other lives and in other ages, who could lend them his own soul, had to have something said about him; something very good and so it was said, but he was not an "artist." From the same point of view and to the same people Browning was a mere great man (that is: a merely infinite man). He was a man who went about living and loving things, with a few blind words opening the eyes of the blind. It had to be admitted that Robe

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Contents

Chapter 1 AS GOOD AS OURS Chapter 2 ON BEING BUSY AND STILL Chapter 3 ON NOT SHOWING OFF Chapter 4 ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD Chapter 5 PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS Chapter 6 HEWING AWAY ON THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Chapter 7 THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE Chapter 8 SYMBOLISM IN MODERN ART Chapter 9 THE MACHINES AS ARTISTS Chapter 10 THE IDEA OF INCARNATION Chapter 11 THE IDEA OF SIZE
Chapter 12 THE IDEA OF LIBERTY
Chapter 13 THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY
Chapter 14 No.14
Chapter 15 THE IDEA OF GOD
Chapter 16 THE IDEA OF THE UNSEEN AND INTANGIBLE
Chapter 17 THE IDEA OF GREAT MEN
Chapter 18 THE NEXT MORNING.
Chapter 19 NEIGHBORS TO ABBOTSMEAD.
Chapter 20 PAST AND PRESENT.
Chapter 21 A DISCOVERY.
Chapter 22 PRELIMINARIES.
Chapter 23 BESSIE SHOWS CHARACTER.
Chapter 24 A QUIET POLICY.
Chapter 25 A DINNER AT BRENTWOOD.
Chapter 26 A MORNING AT BRENTWOOD.
Chapter 27 SOME DOUBTS AND FEARS.
Chapter 28 IN MINSTER COURT.
Chapter 29 LADY LATIMER IN WOLDSHIRE.
Chapter 30 MY LADY REVISITS OLD SCENES.
Chapter 31 A SUCCESS AND A REPULSE.
Chapter 32 A HARD STRUGGLE.
Chapter 33 A VISIT TO CASTLEMOUNT.
Chapter 34 BESSIE'S PEACEMAKING.
Chapter 35 ABBOTSMEAD IN SHADOW.
Chapter 36 DIPLOMATIC.
Chapter 37 SUNDAY MORNING AT BEECHHURST.
Chapter 38 SUNDAY EVENING AT BROOK.
Chapter 39 AT FAIRFIELD.
Chapter 40 ANOTHER RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.
Chapter 41 FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.
Chapter 42 HOW FRIENDS MAY FALL OUT..
Chapter 43 BETWEEN THEMSELVES.
Chapter 44 A LONG, DULL DAY.
Chapter 45 THE SQUIRE'S WILL.
Chapter 46 TENDER AND TRUE.
Chapter 47 GOODNESS PREVAILS.
Chapter 48 CERTAIN OPINIONS.
Chapter 49 BESSIE'S LAST RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.
Chapter 50 FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE.
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