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There is exceptional mysticity hovering over his hills and stretches of dune and sky.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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The manifestation of modern pessimism in John Norton has been described, and how its influence was checked by constitutional mysticity has also been shown.
A Mere Accident 1892
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But the manifestations of modern pessimism were checked by constitutional mysticity.
Celibates 1892
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But mysticity saved him from plain paganism, and the art of the Gothic cathedral grew dear to him.
A Mere Accident 1892
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Keller and Goethe, and the duality of Pater, with his great and tyrannical intensification of sensation for nature and the sequent mysticity and symbolism.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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"A deep mysticity brooded over real things and partings," marriages and many acts and accidents of life.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Certain portions of that bread and wine were taken into the bishop's hands; and thereafter, with an increasing mysticity and effusion the rite proceeded.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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Flavian had caught, indeed, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866
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Angels might be met by the way, under English elm or beech-tree; mere messengers seemed like angels, bound on celestial errands; a deep mysticity brooded over real meetings and partings; marriages were made in heaven; and deaths also, with hands of angels thereupon, to bear soul and body quietly asunder, each to its [195] appointed rest.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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Together with all the novelty, the innovating and improving skill, which has made Canachus remembered, an attractive, old-world, deeply-felt mysticity seems still to cling about what we read of these early works.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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