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... turned wearily to his book , while the son , with an eager and elastic step , passed out of the room into the court , and mounting lightly into the saddle , whistled to his dogs , and rode away into the July day . Fair shone the summer ...
... turned wearily to his book , while the son , with an eager and elastic step , passed out of the room into the court , and mounting lightly into the saddle , whistled to his dogs , and rode away into the July day . Fair shone the summer ...
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... turned round to comply with an acceptable proposi- tion , she threw herself upon his neck and kissed him with passionate vehemence . At this juncture the sick sister sprang into the room in a light but elegant night dress . " Not thou ...
... turned round to comply with an acceptable proposi- tion , she threw herself upon his neck and kissed him with passionate vehemence . At this juncture the sick sister sprang into the room in a light but elegant night dress . " Not thou ...
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... turned to girlhood , to a fresh young Natur - Kind . Let us look for a moment at the portrait of Christiane . Her girlish , well - formed figure is ripe and round , more gratifying perhaps to the sensual than the romantic . Her curly ...
... turned to girlhood , to a fresh young Natur - Kind . Let us look for a moment at the portrait of Christiane . Her girlish , well - formed figure is ripe and round , more gratifying perhaps to the sensual than the romantic . Her curly ...
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... , seen from the facet turned towards love . " Of Goethe's spiritual endowment , looked at on the intellectual side , we have ( as indeed is in the nature of things , for moral and intellectual are funda- 66 Studies and Romances .
... , seen from the facet turned towards love . " Of Goethe's spiritual endowment , looked at on the intellectual side , we have ( as indeed is in the nature of things , for moral and intellectual are funda- 66 Studies and Romances .
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... turned weakness into strength , and has made stepping - stones of his dead self to higher things . Of him we may say with him , and specially as regards his loves— " Hätte mich Gott anders gewollt , So hätte er mich anders gemacht . " A ...
... turned weakness into strength , and has made stepping - stones of his dead self to higher things . Of him we may say with him , and specially as regards his loves— " Hätte mich Gott anders gewollt , So hätte er mich anders gemacht . " A ...
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