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... death - song . ments , would he have been able to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man - a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no man can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness ...
... death - song . ments , would he have been able to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man - a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no man can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness ...
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... death ; who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of Barbariccia and Diaghignazzo . His ...
... death ; who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of Barbariccia and Diaghignazzo . His ...
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... avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery- Despair hurrying from couch to couch , to mock the wretches with his attendance : Death shak- | portion MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery- Despair hurrying from couch to couch , to mock the wretches with his attendance : Death shak- | portion MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... death ; who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of Barbariccia and Diaghignazzo . His ...
... death ; who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of Barbariccia and Diaghignazzo . His ...
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... death by men who had understood how vast an interval separates the been exasperated by the hostilities of several ... deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu- and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate tion ...
... death by men who had understood how vast an interval separates the been exasperated by the hostilities of several ... deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu- and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate tion ...
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