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... thought unworthy even of so slight a record as the notice here conferred on them . The one object which gives to this book whatever it may have of unity is the study of art in its imaginative aspects . I have desired above all things to ...
... thought unworthy even of so slight a record as the notice here conferred on them . The one object which gives to this book whatever it may have of unity is the study of art in its imaginative aspects . I have desired above all things to ...
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... thought it best not to let these reprints go forth together for the first time on their own account without a word of remark on their object and their scope . They are here arranged according to scale and subject , with the date ...
... thought it best not to let these reprints go forth together for the first time on their own account without a word of remark on their object and their scope . They are here arranged according to scale and subject , with the date ...
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... thought to rest on ; but have we not seen first the face of a heroic soul ? Far elsewhere than in the work of our sovereign poet must we look for the horror which art will have none of , which nature flings back with loathing in the ...
... thought to rest on ; but have we not seen first the face of a heroic soul ? Far elsewhere than in the work of our sovereign poet must we look for the horror which art will have none of , which nature flings back with loathing in the ...
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... thought that slowly opens into flower of speech , and through all and after all the sweet unspeakable music of natural and simple love . After the voice which reproaches the priestlike soldier we hear the voice which rebukes the ...
... thought that slowly opens into flower of speech , and through all and after all the sweet unspeakable music of natural and simple love . After the voice which reproaches the priestlike soldier we hear the voice which rebukes the ...
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... thought it ) of her corpse ; words of living fire and light for love of the mother - land despised and rejected of men whose pity goes so far as to compassionate her children for the blush of shame to which their bitter fortune has ...
... thought it ) of her corpse ; words of living fire and light for love of the mother - land despised and rejected of men whose pity goes so far as to compassionate her children for the blush of shame to which their bitter fortune has ...
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