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Page 85
... course , were gardeners before the Romans : witness the several gardens described by Homer . The Garden of Alcinous remains an established phrase for per- fection ; but he has at least three descriptions of three different gardens , and ...
... course , were gardeners before the Romans : witness the several gardens described by Homer . The Garden of Alcinous remains an established phrase for per- fection ; but he has at least three descriptions of three different gardens , and ...
Page 141
... course in prose ! —a potager , a vegetable garden . The poem , of course , is Marvell's , though he was a Puritan in politics if not in habit and character . Are any two lines of verse more widely or fondly quoted than his ...
... course in prose ! —a potager , a vegetable garden . The poem , of course , is Marvell's , though he was a Puritan in politics if not in habit and character . Are any two lines of verse more widely or fondly quoted than his ...
Page 181
... course , was just a preliminary sleep , a mere closing of the eyes for better meditation ; for a week later comes the experiment with the speaking- trumpet , and the reassuring entry on the following day that Timothy eats heartily . But ...
... course , was just a preliminary sleep , a mere closing of the eyes for better meditation ; for a week later comes the experiment with the speaking- trumpet , and the reassuring entry on the following day that Timothy eats heartily . But ...
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