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... actual world being unendurable , Shelley devotes him- self to the glorious Phantom that may ( an oddly ironical stress results from the rime position ) work a sudden miraculous change but is in any case as vague as Demo- gorgon and as ...
... actual world being unendurable , Shelley devotes him- self to the glorious Phantom that may ( an oddly ironical stress results from the rime position ) work a sudden miraculous change but is in any case as vague as Demo- gorgon and as ...
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... actual life seems thin and unreal . By the last stanza imagination in Keats has flagged , has relapsed from its inspired dream , the en- chantment has waned and the actual has reasserted itself ; but although the ' leaf - fringed legend ...
... actual life seems thin and unreal . By the last stanza imagination in Keats has flagged , has relapsed from its inspired dream , the en- chantment has waned and the actual has reasserted itself ; but although the ' leaf - fringed legend ...
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... actual : 6 All breathing human passion far above , That leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloy'd , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . 6 In the next stanza it is , as my correspondent says , plain that Keats is seeing the urn ...
... actual : 6 All breathing human passion far above , That leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloy'd , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . 6 In the next stanza it is , as my correspondent says , plain that Keats is seeing the urn ...
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