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... lyrics were the prelude to this grand chorus of the master's . We have seen the soft fierce play of the incessant summer lightnings , between the deep sky full of passing lights and dreams , and the deep sea full of the salt seed of ...
... lyrics were the prelude to this grand chorus of the master's . We have seen the soft fierce play of the incessant summer lightnings , between the deep sky full of passing lights and dreams , and the deep sea full of the salt seed of ...
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... A parsimonious poet calculates well for his own time . Had Victor Hugo granted us but one great play - say " Marion de Lorme , " but one great lyric work - say " Les Contemplations , " but one great tragic story 14 VICTOR HUGO :
... A parsimonious poet calculates well for his own time . Had Victor Hugo granted us but one great play - say " Marion de Lorme , " but one great lyric work - say " Les Contemplations , " but one great tragic story 14 VICTOR HUGO :
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... lyric loveliness and lyric force ; and I for one am content to be simply glad and grateful : content in that simplicity of spirit to accept it as one more benefit at the hands of the supreme singer now living among us the beautiful and ...
... lyric loveliness and lyric force ; and I for one am content to be simply glad and grateful : content in that simplicity of spirit to accept it as one more benefit at the hands of the supreme singer now living among us the beautiful and ...
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... lyric and of tragic song . It is Eschylus , and not Euripides , who fills the bitter air of the Scythian ravine with music of wings and words more sweet than sleep to the weary , with notes of heavenly pity and love unsubduable by fear ...
... lyric and of tragic song . It is Eschylus , and not Euripides , who fills the bitter air of the Scythian ravine with music of wings and words more sweet than sleep to the weary , with notes of heavenly pity and love unsubduable by fear ...
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... lyric genius , and that the hoarse monotony of verse lowered to the level of a Spartan understanding , however commendable such verse may be for the doctrine delivered and the duty inculcated upon all good citizens , is of less than no ...
... lyric genius , and that the hoarse monotony of verse lowered to the level of a Spartan understanding , however commendable such verse may be for the doctrine delivered and the duty inculcated upon all good citizens , is of less than no ...
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