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... fancy , to run variations of one type of woman . They were all exquisitely feminine , with softly - rounded forms and a certain refined , sensuous womanhood , sometimes tender , sometimes sportive , always animated . Not one was grand ...
... fancy , to run variations of one type of woman . They were all exquisitely feminine , with softly - rounded forms and a certain refined , sensuous womanhood , sometimes tender , sometimes sportive , always animated . Not one was grand ...
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Henry Schütz Wilson. I fancy that the creator of Imogen would have loved a trace of princess that should not lessen womanhood . There was no strain of the lofty or majestic or imposing ; all were essentially women , and full of feminine ...
Henry Schütz Wilson. I fancy that the creator of Imogen would have loved a trace of princess that should not lessen womanhood . There was no strain of the lofty or majestic or imposing ; all were essentially women , and full of feminine ...
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... fancy waked to love ; when first he felt the fever and the passion , the restless craving and desire of the first love of first youth . But he was older than his years . He was well acquainted with the coulisses of a theatre , and had ...
... fancy waked to love ; when first he felt the fever and the passion , the restless craving and desire of the first love of first youth . But he was older than his years . He was well acquainted with the coulisses of a theatre , and had ...
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... fancy the juvenile duellist transformed into a lover . He fell into queer Bohemian company . The strict , pedantic rule of his father drove the boy much from home , and he became , unconsciously on his part , acquainted with a small ...
... fancy the juvenile duellist transformed into a lover . He fell into queer Bohemian company . The strict , pedantic rule of his father drove the boy much from home , and he became , unconsciously on his part , acquainted with a small ...
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... friendship between them ; but I should fancy , judging from her portrait , that there could never have been any serious passion for her on the part of Goethe . In 1770 , Goethe , then twenty years of age The Loves of Goethe . 4I.
... friendship between them ; but I should fancy , judging from her portrait , that there could never have been any serious passion for her on the part of Goethe . In 1770 , Goethe , then twenty years of age The Loves of Goethe . 4I.
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