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It has , too , for the long reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who ... iron and rotting boards , and belong to a past which can only be imagined I have a special memory of Oatman .
It has , too , for the long reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who ... iron and rotting boards , and belong to a past which can only be imagined I have a special memory of Oatman .
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be imagined to see it if he were . No more could Jesus be 1103 imagined to perceive the sower . The pictorial emphasis , therefore , is not on the teacher , not even on the substance of the thing taught , but only on the parable by ...
be imagined to see it if he were . No more could Jesus be 1103 imagined to perceive the sower . The pictorial emphasis , therefore , is not on the teacher , not even on the substance of the thing taught , but only on the parable by ...
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My awareness was superficial , limited to mere figures of people seen or imagined From another point of view I might seem less a part of the scene than the not , of course , with Bruegels complete freedom to choose its elements .
My awareness was superficial , limited to mere figures of people seen or imagined From another point of view I might seem less a part of the scene than the not , of course , with Bruegels complete freedom to choose its elements .
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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