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The same transmutive tendency appears, in lesser degree, in the saint-worship of the North African Berbers and in the pantheism of the
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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But its chief fault seems to me to be its lack of that transmutive glow of rhythmic emotion without which no poem can endure.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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Here it seems apt to point out that Browning was the first writer of our day to indicate this transmutive, this inspired and inspiring wonder-spirit, which is the deepest motor in the evolution of our modern poetry.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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But its chief fault seems to me to be its lack of that transmutive glow of rhythmic emotion without which no poem can endure.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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Here it seems apt to point out that Browning was the first writer of our day to indicate this transmutive, this inspired and inspiring wonder-spirit, which is the deepest motor in the evolution of our modern poetry.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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As in childhood the glow of distant London had affected him to a pleasure that was not without pain, perhaps to a pain rather that was a fine delirium, so in his early manhood the neighbourhood of the huge city, felt in those midnight walks of his, and apprehended more by the transmutive shudder of reflected glare thrown fadingly upward against the stars, than by any more direct vision or even far-borne indeterminate hum, dominated his imagination.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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As in childhood the glow of distant London had affected him to a pleasure that was not without pain, perhaps to a pain rather that was a fine delirium, so in his early manhood the neighbourhood of the huge city, felt in those midnight walks of his, and apprehended more by the transmutive shudder of reflected glare thrown fadingly upward against the stars, than by any more direct vision or even far-borne indeterminate hum, dominated his imagination.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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