The physical fact, indeed, became comparatively unimportant, except as the evoking cause of certain symbolisms--nay, certain actual and direct contacts between earth and heaven, which were the distraction of death itself--which took precedence of it, and reduced it to insignificance. [Please select]
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Goethe, with his casuistries which led him to allegory and all manner of overdone symbolisms and perversions in the Second Part, is set aside and a true crisis and close is found by Gounod through simply sending Marguerite above and Faust below, as, indeed, Faust had agreed by solemn compact with Mephistopheles that it should be. [Please select]
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CHAPTER XX--EGOTISTIC ELEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS From these sources now traced out by us--his youthfulness of spirit, his mystical bias, and tendency to dream--symbolisms leading to disregard of common feelings--flows too often the indeterminateness of Stevenson's work, at the very points where for direct interest there should be decision. [Please select]
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