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Page xiv
... seemed right in his own eyes . The hardening into unchangeable forms came while the elements were mixed confusedly , and the result was like freezing over a river - basin covered with heaped - up fragments of floating ice . Nearly all ...
... seemed right in his own eyes . The hardening into unchangeable forms came while the elements were mixed confusedly , and the result was like freezing over a river - basin covered with heaped - up fragments of floating ice . Nearly all ...
Page xxiv
... seemed to use words with a certain vital meaning . Their images and epithets remind us of the boughs of that tree which when broken off by Dante trickled blood . Their verses are strong and sinewy , -not without grace , but with the ...
... seemed to use words with a certain vital meaning . Their images and epithets remind us of the boughs of that tree which when broken off by Dante trickled blood . Their verses are strong and sinewy , -not without grace , but with the ...
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... Seemed in heart some hidden care she had ; And by her in a line a milke - white lambe she lad . VIII . And foorth they passe , with pleasure forward led , Ioying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the ...
... Seemed in heart some hidden care she had ; And by her in a line a milke - white lambe she lad . VIII . And foorth they passe , with pleasure forward led , Ioying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the ...
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... seemed to raise . But thou art proof against them , and , indeed , Above the ill fortune of them , or the need . I therefore will begin : Soul of the age ! The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare , rise ! I ...
... seemed to raise . But thou art proof against them , and , indeed , Above the ill fortune of them , or the need . I therefore will begin : Soul of the age ! The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare , rise ! I ...
Page 50
... and a most magnanimous resolution . When he appeared first in the Parliament , he seemed to have a person in no degree gracious , no ornament of discourse 50 HAND - BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . Voluptuous and wise withal, ...
... and a most magnanimous resolution . When he appeared first in the Parliament , he seemed to have a person in no degree gracious , no ornament of discourse 50 HAND - BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . Voluptuous and wise withal, ...
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