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... seem to annihilate both time and distance - we enter the action , we are there as these things happen , we believe ... seems to deny the identity of a single artist who twice was capable of measuring the intensity with which a hero ...
... seem to annihilate both time and distance - we enter the action , we are there as these things happen , we believe ... seems to deny the identity of a single artist who twice was capable of measuring the intensity with which a hero ...
Page 174
... seems " like one of those who run for the green cloth at Verona through the open field , " and of those seems " he who gains , not loses , " is immortalized by that tender irony . The noble judge Nino , eager in Purgatory to send ...
... seems " like one of those who run for the green cloth at Verona through the open field , " and of those seems " he who gains , not loses , " is immortalized by that tender irony . The noble judge Nino , eager in Purgatory to send ...
Page 193
... Seems to be borne by native influence , As feats of arms ; and love to entertain ; But chiefly skill to ride seems a science Proper to gentle blood : some others feign To manage The Faerie Queene / 193.
... Seems to be borne by native influence , As feats of arms ; and love to entertain ; But chiefly skill to ride seems a science Proper to gentle blood : some others feign To manage The Faerie Queene / 193.
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