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... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting - place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . ) They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They ...
... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting - place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . ) They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They ...
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... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
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... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - " Have ye not seen somtime a pale face ( ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - " Have ye not seen somtime a pale face ( ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
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... death , still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than any other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub ...
... death , still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than any other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub ...
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... death of Arcite is the more affecting as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
... death of Arcite is the more affecting as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
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