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... strong enough to delay the packet some three good hours over the due time . About mid- night the thundercloud was right overhead , full of in- cessant sound and fire , lightening and darkening so rapidly that it seemed to have life ...
... strong enough to delay the packet some three good hours over the due time . About mid- night the thundercloud was right overhead , full of in- cessant sound and fire , lightening and darkening so rapidly that it seemed to have life ...
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... strong spirit and worth study . The few chapters , full of fiery eloquence and a passion bitter as blood , in which his evil soul is stripped and submitted to vivisec- tion , contain , if read aright , the best commentary ever written ...
... strong spirit and worth study . The few chapters , full of fiery eloquence and a passion bitter as blood , in which his evil soul is stripped and submitted to vivisec- tion , contain , if read aright , the best commentary ever written ...
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... strong as a sea - wind , the " bull - voiced " bellowing under - song of those dread choristers from somewhere out of sight , the tempest of tambourines giving back thunder to the thunder , 1 the fury of divine lust that thickened with ...
... strong as a sea - wind , the " bull - voiced " bellowing under - song of those dread choristers from somewhere out of sight , the tempest of tambourines giving back thunder to the thunder , 1 the fury of divine lust that thickened with ...
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... strong ; full from end to end of divine and passionate love , of holy and ardent pity for men that suffer wrong at the hands of men ; full , not less , of lyric loveliness and lyric force ; and I for one am content to be simply glad and ...
... strong ; full from end to end of divine and passionate love , of holy and ardent pity for men that suffer wrong at the hands of men ; full , not less , of lyric loveliness and lyric force ; and I for one am content to be simply glad and ...
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... strong charm of loveliness we return at each reading to the domestic poems as to the crowning splendour and wonder of this great book . All students have always known Victor Hugo for the supreme singer of childhood ; of its works and ...
... strong charm of loveliness we return at each reading to the domestic poems as to the crowning splendour and wonder of this great book . All students have always known Victor Hugo for the supreme singer of childhood ; of its works and ...
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