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Page 39
... lies the irritant sense of loss - " whither " was fled the " visionary gleam " ? Resuming the poem , he answers first by stating the pre- existent , visionary character of childhood : Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The Soul ...
... lies the irritant sense of loss - " whither " was fled the " visionary gleam " ? Resuming the poem , he answers first by stating the pre- existent , visionary character of childhood : Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The Soul ...
Page 176
... lies in the continuous awareness and definition of the civilization to which Nature is opposed . The negative civilization of St. Petersburg is a presence in the novel . The " little village " lies there " sleeping in the distance ...
... lies in the continuous awareness and definition of the civilization to which Nature is opposed . The negative civilization of St. Petersburg is a presence in the novel . The " little village " lies there " sleeping in the distance ...
Page 182
... lying to conceal him . He lies : " They went off and I got aboard the raft , feeling bad and low , because I knowed very well I had done wrong .... Then I thought ... would you felt better than what you do now ? ... what's the use you ...
... lying to conceal him . He lies : " They went off and I got aboard the raft , feeling bad and low , because I knowed very well I had done wrong .... Then I thought ... would you felt better than what you do now ? ... what's the use you ...
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