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... Beauty . " The term " minstrel " was a comprehensive one , including the poet , singer , musician , reciter , and story - teller . The minstrels were probably very seldom the authors of the songs with which they delighted the people of ...
... Beauty . " The term " minstrel " was a comprehensive one , including the poet , singer , musician , reciter , and story - teller . The minstrels were probably very seldom the authors of the songs with which they delighted the people of ...
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... beauty , external beauty being taken by him as the outward expression of inner spiritual beauty . In the " Hymn to Heavenly Beauty " he writes : " For of the soul the body form doth take , For soul is form and doth the body make ...
... beauty , external beauty being taken by him as the outward expression of inner spiritual beauty . In the " Hymn to Heavenly Beauty " he writes : " For of the soul the body form doth take , For soul is form and doth the body make ...
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... beauty , for happiness , love , and youth , all that constituted beauty for him , is expressed again and again : " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever , Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness , but still will ...
... beauty , for happiness , love , and youth , all that constituted beauty for him , is expressed again and again : " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever , Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness , but still will ...
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