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... hand in hand , Over the shining pebbles and the shells , Glided along the smooth and hardened sand , And in the worn and wild receptacles Worked by the storms , yet worked as it were planned , In hollow halls , with sparry roofs and ...
... hand in hand , Over the shining pebbles and the shells , Glided along the smooth and hardened sand , And in the worn and wild receptacles Worked by the storms , yet worked as it were planned , In hollow halls , with sparry roofs and ...
Page 226
... hands . The second is filled with shame that such charity should be needful . Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land , Babes reduc'd to misery , Fed with cold and usurous hand ? As Wordsworth says in a similar mood : I ...
... hands . The second is filled with shame that such charity should be needful . Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land , Babes reduc'd to misery , Fed with cold and usurous hand ? As Wordsworth says in a similar mood : I ...
Page 287
... hand our need of order , of synthesis , of a comprehensive yet definite , therefore exclusive as well as inclusive , ordering of thought and feeling and action ; and on the other hand the inevitable finiteness of every human synthesis ...
... hand our need of order , of synthesis , of a comprehensive yet definite , therefore exclusive as well as inclusive , ordering of thought and feeling and action ; and on the other hand the inevitable finiteness of every human synthesis ...
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