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... effect which poetry produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his The ...
... effect which poetry produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his The ...
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... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power : and he who should then hope to conjure with it , would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the door ...
... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power : and he who should then hope to conjure with it , would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the door ...
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... effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en - tra's poet , " sometimes reminds us of the beau- trance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was that the tragedies of Byron were his ...
... effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en - tra's poet , " sometimes reminds us of the beau- trance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was that the tragedies of Byron were his ...
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... effect on the public mind . him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his adherents , and ...
... effect on the public mind . him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his adherents , and ...
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... effect . Virgil advises the husbandmen who removes a plant from one spot to another instruct mankind . to mark its bearings on the cork , and to place it in the same position with regard to the dif ferent points of the heaven in which ...
... effect . Virgil advises the husbandmen who removes a plant from one spot to another instruct mankind . to mark its bearings on the cork , and to place it in the same position with regard to the dif ferent points of the heaven in which ...
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