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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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... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had Thus the Puritan was made up of two differ- ent men , the one all self - abasement ...
... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had Thus the Puritan was made up of two differ- ent men , the one all self - abasement ...
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... death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self - devotion , call forth the same kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensi bility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse ...
... death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self - devotion , call forth the same kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensi bility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse ...
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