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Page vii
... Ballet Master Death . The bleeding Nations evidently danced to an Orchestra of Passions , of whom the noblest were the most efficacious in keeping up the hideous farandole which they had not for- bidden ; and Pity and Indignation ...
... Ballet Master Death . The bleeding Nations evidently danced to an Orchestra of Passions , of whom the noblest were the most efficacious in keeping up the hideous farandole which they had not for- bidden ; and Pity and Indignation ...
Page viii
... Ballet Master Death given his great Benefit Performance , if Self - Interest , instead of turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies and public offices and in the sanctums of ...
... Ballet Master Death given his great Benefit Performance , if Self - Interest , instead of turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies and public offices and in the sanctums of ...
Page ix
... Ballet Master Death ? Little by little it was borne in upon me that the whole meaning of my allegory depended on the answers I was wont to give myself upon certain problems of philosophy and religion : the nature of Evil , the ...
... Ballet Master Death ? Little by little it was borne in upon me that the whole meaning of my allegory depended on the answers I was wont to give myself upon certain problems of philosophy and religion : the nature of Evil , the ...
Page xlii
... Death with the stealthy assistance of his irre- sponsible bravoes Delusion and Confusion , no less than with the ... Ballet Master Death , weary though exultant , refreshes himself with drunken slumber propped upon his faithful adorer ...
... Death with the stealthy assistance of his irre- sponsible bravoes Delusion and Confusion , no less than with the ... Ballet Master Death , weary though exultant , refreshes himself with drunken slumber propped upon his faithful adorer ...
Page xlvii
... Dance of Death on earth , of my allegoric trilogy of the war . Events have now ( August , 1919 ) , got to the Epilogue . In my symbolic interpretation thereof , Heroism , waked up by Ballet Master Death's intoxicated boastings , and ...
... Dance of Death on earth , of my allegoric trilogy of the war . Events have now ( August , 1919 ) , got to the Epilogue . In my symbolic interpretation thereof , Heroism , waked up by Ballet Master Death's intoxicated boastings , and ...
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