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... look at the completed book , through which are plenti- fully strewn exercises of the special type designed for it , I am reminded with some little amusement of the texts which I studied in mathematics years ago . I recall how as a child ...
... look at the completed book , through which are plenti- fully strewn exercises of the special type designed for it , I am reminded with some little amusement of the texts which I studied in mathematics years ago . I recall how as a child ...
Page 292
... look upon fine phrases like a lover , " he will be alert for the sublime fragment even amid what appear to him deserts of metrical verbiage . had something of this sort in mind when he spoke of the Iliad as a " series of lyrics , " and ...
... look upon fine phrases like a lover , " he will be alert for the sublime fragment even amid what appear to him deserts of metrical verbiage . had something of this sort in mind when he spoke of the Iliad as a " series of lyrics , " and ...
Page 319
... look at him , he looks back at the eyes ; They pass and pass . They go back to their camps at last . " So that was him , " they say . " So that's the old man . I'm glad we saw him . He isn't so much on looks But he looks like people you ...
... look at him , he looks back at the eyes ; They pass and pass . They go back to their camps at last . " So that was him , " they say . " So that's the old man . I'm glad we saw him . He isn't so much on looks But he looks like people you ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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