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... memory for ever ; but rather a thing to admire than desire . The magnetism of beauty , the effluence of attraction , he would not have given us . But now we have her from the hands of a poet as well as student , new - blown and actual ...
... memory for ever ; but rather a thing to admire than desire . The magnetism of beauty , the effluence of attraction , he would not have given us . But now we have her from the hands of a poet as well as student , new - blown and actual ...
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... memories of French kindred and alliance in their hearts , men to whose forefathers in exile for their faith's sake ... memory which neither the native of France nor the kinless foreigner can wholly share . Side by side with the ardent ...
... memories of French kindred and alliance in their hearts , men to whose forefathers in exile for their faith's sake ... memory which neither the native of France nor the kinless foreigner can wholly share . Side by side with the ardent ...
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... memory among the woods and streets and now the sorrowful and stormy notes of the giant organ whose keys are the months of this " Année Terrible . " And all these make up but one division of the work of one man's life : and we know that ...
... memory among the woods and streets and now the sorrowful and stormy notes of the giant organ whose keys are the months of this " Année Terrible . " And all these make up but one division of the work of one man's life : and we know that ...
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... memory , at the cost generally of inharmonious and insufficient work . No such coarse or cheap stuff is here used as a ground to set off the rich surprises of casual ornament and intermittent embroidery . The woof 62 THE POEMS OF.
... memory , at the cost generally of inharmonious and insufficient work . No such coarse or cheap stuff is here used as a ground to set off the rich surprises of casual ornament and intermittent embroidery . The woof 62 THE POEMS OF.
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... memory and his belief , all fuller and emptier hours from the first which longs for him to the last which loses , all change of lights from his midday to his moonrise , all his foreknowledge of evil things and good , all glad and sad ...
... memory and his belief , all fuller and emptier hours from the first which longs for him to the last which loses , all change of lights from his midday to his moonrise , all his foreknowledge of evil things and good , all glad and sad ...
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