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... given by some of his work . And it is because his recent book has not seldom given it me again , that I have anything here to say of it . It is a book to be rightly read , not by the lamplight of realism , but by the sunlight of his ...
... given by some of his work . And it is because his recent book has not seldom given it me again , that I have anything here to say of it . It is a book to be rightly read , not by the lamplight of realism , but by the sunlight of his ...
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... given us by dint of anxious anatomy some picture of the virgin harlot . A marvellous study we should have had , one to burn into the brain and brand the memory for ever ; but rather a thing to admire than desire . The magnetism of ...
... given us by dint of anxious anatomy some picture of the virgin harlot . A marvellous study we should have had , one to burn into the brain and brand the memory for ever ; but rather a thing to admire than desire . The magnetism of ...
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... given us in another guise one of these Eschylean women , a monstrous goddess , whose tone of voice " gave a sort of Promethean grandeur to her furious and amorous words , " who had in her the tragic and Titanic passion of the women of ...
... given us in another guise one of these Eschylean women , a monstrous goddess , whose tone of voice " gave a sort of Promethean grandeur to her furious and amorous words , " who had in her the tragic and Titanic passion of the women of ...
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... given to this ghastly matter something even of a horrible charm , a shocking splendour of effect . The rhythmic horror of the thing penetrates us not with loath- ing , but with a tragic awe and terror as at a real piece of the wind's ...
... given to this ghastly matter something even of a horrible charm , a shocking splendour of effect . The rhythmic horror of the thing penetrates us not with loath- ing , but with a tragic awe and terror as at a real piece of the wind's ...
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... given among men in our times . Goethe found his way of work mechanical and theatrical ; Milton also lived to make oblique recantation of his early praise of Shakespeare ; we may , and should , wish this otherwise yet none the less are ...
... given among men in our times . Goethe found his way of work mechanical and theatrical ; Milton also lived to make oblique recantation of his early praise of Shakespeare ; we may , and should , wish this otherwise yet none the less are ...
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