From Beowulf to Edward GibbonRobert Shafer Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931 - English literature |
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... nature for his principal object , without which they could not consist , and on which they so depend as they become actors and players , as it were , of what nature 25 will have set forth . So doth the astronomer look upon the stars ...
... nature for his principal object , without which they could not consist , and on which they so depend as they become actors and players , as it were , of what nature 25 will have set forth . So doth the astronomer look upon the stars ...
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Robert Shafer. other nature , in making things either better than nature bringeth forth , or , quite anew , forms such as never were in nature , as the heroes , demi - gods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like ; so as he goeth ...
Robert Shafer. other nature , in making things either better than nature bringeth forth , or , quite anew , forms such as never were in nature , as the heroes , demi - gods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like ; so as he goeth ...
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... nature too far ; for nature will lay buried a great time , and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation ; -like as it was with Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a woman , who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran ...
... nature too far ; for nature will lay buried a great time , and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation ; -like as it was with Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a woman , who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran ...
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