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... pass before one's eyes -Moses , Archimedes , Achilles , Job , Hector and Charles the Fifth , Cardan and Alaric , Gordianus , and Pilate , and Homer , and Cambyses , and the Canaanitish woman . Among them , one visionary figure flits ...
... pass before one's eyes -Moses , Archimedes , Achilles , Job , Hector and Charles the Fifth , Cardan and Alaric , Gordianus , and Pilate , and Homer , and Cambyses , and the Canaanitish woman . Among them , one visionary figure flits ...
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... pass unnoticed by those who have been accustomed to the violent appeals of the great romantic poets . As Sainte - Beuve says , in a fine comparison between Racine and Shakespeare , to come to the one after the other is like passing to a ...
... pass unnoticed by those who have been accustomed to the violent appeals of the great romantic poets . As Sainte - Beuve says , in a fine comparison between Racine and Shakespeare , to come to the one after the other is like passing to a ...
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... pass into death , ' says one of his earliest characters , ' like music on the night wind . ' And , in Death's Fest Book , Sibylla has the same thoughts : O Death ! I am thy friend , I struggle not with thee , I love thy state : Thou ...
... pass into death , ' says one of his earliest characters , ' like music on the night wind . ' And , in Death's Fest Book , Sibylla has the same thoughts : O Death ! I am thy friend , I struggle not with thee , I love thy state : Thou ...
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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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