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... sounds nonsensical . But if you have ever sat and watched a Transformation Scene in a pantomime , did you suppose , just before the harlequin slapped with his wand on what looked like a plain brick - and - mortar wall , that it would ...
... sounds nonsensical . But if you have ever sat and watched a Transformation Scene in a pantomime , did you suppose , just before the harlequin slapped with his wand on what looked like a plain brick - and - mortar wall , that it would ...
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... sound of the poem , but that even the slightest alteration in the sound a little changed the sense . Either you lost something of the tune and runningness ; or the words did not clash right ; or you blurred the picture the words gave ...
... sound of the poem , but that even the slightest alteration in the sound a little changed the sense . Either you lost something of the tune and runningness ; or the words did not clash right ; or you blurred the picture the words gave ...
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... sound in my eyrie , a swift glance now and then up at the darkened glass only setting me more sharply to work . I had never before sat in so enormous a silence ; the scratching of my pen its only tongue . Steadily burned my candles ; no ...
... sound in my eyrie , a swift glance now and then up at the darkened glass only setting me more sharply to work . I had never before sat in so enormous a silence ; the scratching of my pen its only tongue . Steadily burned my candles ; no ...
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... sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf , which lay Under a copse , and hardly dared to fling . Its green arms round the bosom of the stream , But kissed it and then fled , as thou mightest in dream . There grew pied ...
... sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf , which lay Under a copse , and hardly dared to fling . Its green arms round the bosom of the stream , But kissed it and then fled , as thou mightest in dream . There grew pied ...
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... sound . . . I can't hear anything to - day , can you , But , far and near : " Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! " ? HAROLD MONRO 11 WEATHERS THIS is the weather the cuckoo likes , And so do I ; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes , And ...
... sound . . . I can't hear anything to - day , can you , But , far and near : " Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! " ? HAROLD MONRO 11 WEATHERS THIS is the weather the cuckoo likes , And so do I ; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes , And ...
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