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... seems such a huge thing in Rasselas , even as revealed through human difficulty and inadequacy , that there seems to be something more - than - humanly awesome , as well as negatively corrective , in the conclusions Imlac draws : ' It seems ...
... seems such a huge thing in Rasselas , even as revealed through human difficulty and inadequacy , that there seems to be something more - than - humanly awesome , as well as negatively corrective , in the conclusions Imlac draws : ' It seems ...
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... seems to make no difference , involving as it does a realistic acknowledgement which leaves everything as it is . But even by being able to leave everything as it is , that at another level changes everything utterly , in the very ...
... seems to make no difference , involving as it does a realistic acknowledgement which leaves everything as it is . But even by being able to leave everything as it is , that at another level changes everything utterly , in the very ...
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... seems already to have occurred and nothing seems left ? The ' harvest ' is ruined . Wordsworth's Michael leaves the sheepfold on which he had worked with his son unfinished , when the son has died - ' and ' tis believed by all ' : That ...
... seems already to have occurred and nothing seems left ? The ' harvest ' is ruined . Wordsworth's Michael leaves the sheepfold on which he had worked with his son unfinished , when the son has died - ' and ' tis believed by all ' : That ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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