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Page 49
... dead in the street . His notebook reveals that strange prescience of death which had illuminated the final weeks of Dr. Arnold . The entry for his last day is : Weep bitterly over the dead , as he is worthy , and then comfort thyself ...
... dead in the street . His notebook reveals that strange prescience of death which had illuminated the final weeks of Dr. Arnold . The entry for his last day is : Weep bitterly over the dead , as he is worthy , and then comfort thyself ...
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... dead ; wilt thou hesitate and fret at dying , whose life is well - nigh dead whilst thou art yet alive ; who con- sumest in sleep the greater part of thy span , and when awake dron- est and ceasest not to dream ; and carriest about a ...
... dead ; wilt thou hesitate and fret at dying , whose life is well - nigh dead whilst thou art yet alive ; who con- sumest in sleep the greater part of thy span , and when awake dron- est and ceasest not to dream ; and carriest about a ...
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... dead ; And the great Rustum drew his horseman's cloak Down o'er his face , and sate by his dead son . As those black granite pillars , once high - rear'd By Jemshid in Persepolis , to bear His house , now ' mid their broken flights of ...
... dead ; And the great Rustum drew his horseman's cloak Down o'er his face , and sate by his dead son . As those black granite pillars , once high - rear'd By Jemshid in Persepolis , to bear His house , now ' mid their broken flights of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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