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... poem , * he stopped and spoke to me , though ** Ah , did you once see Shelley plain , And did he stop and speak to you ? And did he speak to you again ? How strange it seems and new ! ' from Memorabilia what he said , I must admit , was ...
... poem , * he stopped and spoke to me , though ** Ah , did you once see Shelley plain , And did he stop and speak to you ? And did he speak to you again ? How strange it seems and new ! ' from Memorabilia what he said , I must admit , was ...
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... poem . His poems , though the subject is often recondite , have , at their best and most concentrated , a kind of crystalline transparency ; leaves imprisoned under a sheet of ice were an image he particularly favoured . Roger , the ...
... poem . His poems , though the subject is often recondite , have , at their best and most concentrated , a kind of crystalline transparency ; leaves imprisoned under a sheet of ice were an image he particularly favoured . Roger , the ...
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... poem . How he had managed to preserve these treasures I do not know ; for I learned from the Sutros that when , as he sometimes did , he purchased expensive volumes at an antiquarian book - seller's , his troubled wife sel- dom failed ...
... poem . How he had managed to preserve these treasures I do not know ; for I learned from the Sutros that when , as he sometimes did , he purchased expensive volumes at an antiquarian book - seller's , his troubled wife sel- dom failed ...
Contents
PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
Copyright | |
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