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Page vii
... sense- less like some ghastly " Grand Guignol " performance . It could , as it seemed to me , have been planned and staged only by the legendary Power of Evil ; and the remembrance o medieval masques naturally added the familiar figure ...
... sense- less like some ghastly " Grand Guignol " performance . It could , as it seemed to me , have been planned and staged only by the legendary Power of Evil ; and the remembrance o medieval masques naturally added the familiar figure ...
Page x
... sense of one's own unflinching discrimi- nation , let alone the contemplation of those visionary blossoms ( so far the best part of all gardening and thinking and perhaps living ) which had never yet come up but doubtless would some day ...
... sense of one's own unflinching discrimi- nation , let alone the contemplation of those visionary blossoms ( so far the best part of all gardening and thinking and perhaps living ) which had never yet come up but doubtless would some day ...
Page xiii
... ( as modern psychology calls them ) of past experiences and influences , of present interests , habits , hopes and fears , that all of us interpret the obvious facts striking on our senses and feelings . Like the rest of INTRODUCTION xiii.
... ( as modern psychology calls them ) of past experiences and influences , of present interests , habits , hopes and fears , that all of us interpret the obvious facts striking on our senses and feelings . Like the rest of INTRODUCTION xiii.
Page xiv
A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction Vernon Lee. on our senses and feelings . Like the rest of us , I can , of course , see that the sun disappears in the west and reappears in the east , just as if it really did turn ...
A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction Vernon Lee. on our senses and feelings . Like the rest of us , I can , of course , see that the sun disappears in the west and reappears in the east , just as if it really did turn ...
Page xvi
... of participation , are not the reason , in the sense of the cause , of my inability thus to take part . Indeed , paradox though it sounds at first , I have come by these views of the war just because I have not xvi SATAN THE WASTER.
... of participation , are not the reason , in the sense of the cause , of my inability thus to take part . Indeed , paradox though it sounds at first , I have come by these views of the war just because I have not xvi SATAN THE WASTER.
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