The Immortal Nine: An Introduction to the Poetry of the Last Century |
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... poetry of this one of the Nine Immortals there entered the wisest opinions of as wise a mind - even including those of statesmen ! —as the period of a hundred years ago could show . For poetry may lead us to frame for ourselves a just ...
... poetry of this one of the Nine Immortals there entered the wisest opinions of as wise a mind - even including those of statesmen ! —as the period of a hundred years ago could show . For poetry may lead us to frame for ourselves a just ...
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... poetry — without eternal poetry - half the day will not do the whole of it ! " Think of that dying poet - not yet twenty - six ! When the arterial blood showed itself upon his hand- kerchief , and there remained to him only three weeks ...
... poetry — without eternal poetry - half the day will not do the whole of it ! " Think of that dying poet - not yet twenty - six ! When the arterial blood showed itself upon his hand- kerchief , and there remained to him only three weeks ...
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... poetry . Yet , by a strange paradox , he impoverished it . In the Day of Judgment , we are told , offences of a minor kind will be forgiven the dilettante for the sake of his consistent aim after beauty . Thus a long life of decorous ...
... poetry . Yet , by a strange paradox , he impoverished it . In the Day of Judgment , we are told , offences of a minor kind will be forgiven the dilettante for the sake of his consistent aim after beauty . Thus a long life of decorous ...
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