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... ideal hero was Sir Philip Sidney . Popular as Sir Philip was with all noble English youth , Herbert took in him the nearer interest of relationship . He remembered well what little he had seen in his boyhood of Sidney . He remembered ...
... ideal hero was Sir Philip Sidney . Popular as Sir Philip was with all noble English youth , Herbert took in him the nearer interest of relationship . He remembered well what little he had seen in his boyhood of Sidney . He remembered ...
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... ideal of his lofty and many - sided nature . Suppose , wildly , that he had known Dorothea Brooke ? He says , in one of his letters , " I have had all my life an ideal wish as to how I would be loved , and have sought in vain its ...
... ideal of his lofty and many - sided nature . Suppose , wildly , that he had known Dorothea Brooke ? He says , in one of his letters , " I have had all my life an ideal wish as to how I would be loved , and have sought in vain its ...
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Henry Schütz Wilson. natures , at the brilliant ideal . The form and attitude are those of the young Apollo , the head is that of the sublime but youthful Jupiter . The face is full of sen- sibility , a sensibility restrained and ...
Henry Schütz Wilson. natures , at the brilliant ideal . The form and attitude are those of the young Apollo , the head is that of the sublime but youthful Jupiter . The face is full of sen- sibility , a sensibility restrained and ...
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... ideal . In youth he believed that his ideal would be realised ; in age he accepted the tolerable , and his soul , starlike , dwelt apart . His actual marriage was the Nemesis of so many trials . and of such long indecision . A saying of ...
... ideal . In youth he believed that his ideal would be realised ; in age he accepted the tolerable , and his soul , starlike , dwelt apart . His actual marriage was the Nemesis of so many trials . and of such long indecision . A saying of ...
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... ideal . Disenchant- ment came ; but came in very tenderness towards a creature whose slightness and delicacy appealed so strongly to generosity . Once more Goethe realised . the curse attaching to his supremacy and genius : once more a ...
... ideal . Disenchant- ment came ; but came in very tenderness towards a creature whose slightness and delicacy appealed so strongly to generosity . Once more Goethe realised . the curse attaching to his supremacy and genius : once more a ...
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