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... feel Homer truly - and unless he feels him truly , how can he render him truly ? -cannot be too much on his guard . For example : the writer of an interesting article on English translations of Homer , in the last number of the National ...
... feel Homer truly - and unless he feels him truly , how can he render him truly ? -cannot be too much on his guard . For example : the writer of an interesting article on English translations of Homer , in the last number of the National ...
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... feel , on the boon air , All our unquiet pulses cease ! To feel that nothing can impair The gentleness , the thirst for peace- Poor Marguerite ! she deserved better than to be regarded tamquam soror . And what of Arnold ? He , it seems ...
... feel , on the boon air , All our unquiet pulses cease ! To feel that nothing can impair The gentleness , the thirst for peace- Poor Marguerite ! she deserved better than to be regarded tamquam soror . And what of Arnold ? He , it seems ...
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... feels in On the Rhine . The poem opens with the rather commonplace line " Vain is the effort to forget . " But it closes , very significantly , as follows : Ah , Quiet , all things feel thy balm ! Those blue hills too , this river's ...
... feels in On the Rhine . The poem opens with the rather commonplace line " Vain is the effort to forget . " But it closes , very significantly , as follows : Ah , Quiet , all things feel thy balm ! Those blue hills too , this river's ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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