It is certainly proper to illustrate a theocratic usurpation by an hierarchic one.
This may be true of some of them, though surely not of the popular form of the old Greek ethnic faith.
In truth, the old mythic cosmogonies of the ancient East, South, and North are not a whit too grotesque in their descriptions of the embryo earth, when it lay weltering in a sort of uterine film, assuming form and regular lineaments.
It has been supposed that this little autobiographic story, full of the most intimate personal revelations, and glowing with a sincere passion, was written on a preconceived basis of theory.
It was finally proved by the autobiographic Vie de Henri Brulard, and the other remains which were at last given to the world, nearly half a century after the author's death, by M.
That there is a strongautobiographic element in this, though vigorously and almost violently "transposed," must have been evident to any critical reader long ago.
And a deep vein of autobiographic life and interest runs through the four tracts and binds them into a quick unity.
It were an immense service done to our best literature if some of Behmen's students would go through all Behmen's books, so as to make a complete collection and composition of the best of those autobiographic passages.
And neither Augustine nor Luther nor Bunyan carries deeper wounds, or broader scars, nor tells a nobler story in any of their autobiographic and soldierly books than Behmen does in his Way to Christ.
In the nineteenth chapter of the Aurora there occurs a very important passage of this autobiographic nature.
The affected modesty of the autobiographicparts is diverting.
When his verse is not confined to autobiographic expression, it is often a product of his interest in his friends or in his family.
An English letter to a friend (unknown), who, it appears, had been calling him to account for his apparent indifference as to his work in life This letter has an exceptional autobiographic value.
Some of the autobiographic passages contained in this book will be found a sufficient refutation of what has been quoted from Macaulay.
Footnote 2: The chief original sources for the life of Goethe are his ownautobiographic writings, his letters, his diaries, and his conversations.
He has given various autobiographic handlings of this life--in the main it would seem quite trustworthy, but invested with an air of fantastic unreality by his manner of relation.
The former had at least some autobiographic foundation, and the latter invest actual occurrences with the most singular flavour of romance.
These present Autobiographic Sketches illustrate what I mean.
All this dribbled out in the course of a jerky but variegated correspondence, in which autobiographic details were mixed with reflections moral and philosophical.
It has been complained that, in spite of the apparently full confidences of the Confessions and Autobiographic Sketches, readers are left in comparative ignorance, biographically speaking, of the man De Quincey.
Gil Blas--the novel is autobiographic in form--shall tell his own story: I therefore went in search of Dr.
In other words, the incidents in the latter kind of autobiographic fiction are selected and marshalled for the purpose of declaring the character of the narrator.
Havelock Ellis, in an appendix to his study on the Sexual Impulse, 1903, gives a number of autobiographic reports of normal persons treating their first sexual feelings in childhood and the causes of the same.
If few can be safely regarded as autobiographic revelations of sentiment, many of them offer evidence of the relations in which he stood to a patron, and to the position that he sought to fill in the circle of that patron's literary retainers.
One persistent element in Miss Barker's verse and prose is autobiographic reference.
May that be far from us, as we take up our Pickwick and talk over the autobiographic pathos of David Copperfield.
But a true artist can now and then in prose produce most precious portraits of self and glowing autobiographic fantasies of a noble kind.
It is true that a purely subjective work in prose romance, an autobiographic revelation of a sensitive heart, is not the highest and certainly not the widest art.
The venerable Principal set me upon a piece of literary taskwork, which, save for his advice, I would never have thought of producing, and of which these autobiographic chapters are the late but legitimate offspring.
In a work cast into the autobiographic form, the writer has always much to apologize for.
He seeks no set autobiographic symbols, for boys never look back--there is too little to look back on, too much in front.
Likewise, he who goes in for autobiographic symbols begins, at last, to care not for the symbolism of another event in his life, but for the addition to the objects already there.
Or take the case of one whose collection is not of beautiful things, but of autobiographic symbols: take the case of the glutton.
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