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... become their slaves . Words are like coins ( a dozen metaphors show it ) , and in nothing more so than in this - that the verbal currency we have so ingeniously contrived has outrun our calculations , and become an enigma and a matter ...
... become their slaves . Words are like coins ( a dozen metaphors show it ) , and in nothing more so than in this - that the verbal currency we have so ingeniously contrived has outrun our calculations , and become an enigma and a matter ...
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... become conventional or operatic ; the words remain more tremendously , more exquisitely , more thrillingly alive than ever the excuse and the explanation of the rest . The little creatures had absolutely fascinated their master ; he had ...
... become conventional or operatic ; the words remain more tremendously , more exquisitely , more thrillingly alive than ever the excuse and the explanation of the rest . The little creatures had absolutely fascinated their master ; he had ...
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... become me to be more eager to speak than he was to hear . ' Just as I reached the door , turning to me hastily , he said , " Are you going , Miss Anville ? " " I am , my lord , " answered I ; yet I stopped . " " Perhaps to return to ...
... become me to be more eager to speak than he was to hear . ' Just as I reached the door , turning to me hastily , he said , " Are you going , Miss Anville ? " " I am , my lord , " answered I ; yet I stopped . " " Perhaps to return to ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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