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If there be in our day , says Mr. Farrar , any kind of achievement which is at once impossible to do and useless when done , it is the writing of good Latin or Greek verses . Our American universities , so far as we know , do not ...
If there be in our day , says Mr. Farrar , any kind of achievement which is at once impossible to do and useless when done , it is the writing of good Latin or Greek verses . Our American universities , so far as we know , do not ...
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The gates were then thrown open , and forth at once they rushed The outposts of the Moorish host back to the camp were pushed ; The camp was all in tumult , and there was such a thunder Of cymbals and of drums , as if earth would cleave ...
The gates were then thrown open , and forth at once they rushed The outposts of the Moorish host back to the camp were pushed ; The camp was all in tumult , and there was such a thunder Of cymbals and of drums , as if earth would cleave ...
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His mind ( somewhat solid for a poet ) warmed slowly , but , once fairly heated through , he had more of that good - luck of self - oblivion than most men . He certainly gave even a liberal interpretation to Molière's rule of taking his ...
His mind ( somewhat solid for a poet ) warmed slowly , but , once fairly heated through , he had more of that good - luck of self - oblivion than most men . He certainly gave even a liberal interpretation to Molière's rule of taking his ...
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LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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