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Page 51
... reach the perfect " idea " of the love and of the beloved . Here in The Winter's Tale is Florizel's praise of Perdita , the supposed shepherdess : What you do Still betters what is done . When you speak , sweet , 51 I'ld have you do it ...
... reach the perfect " idea " of the love and of the beloved . Here in The Winter's Tale is Florizel's praise of Perdita , the supposed shepherdess : What you do Still betters what is done . When you speak , sweet , 51 I'ld have you do it ...
Page 53
... reach for the top , always just beyond reach , is the music of Shakespeare's time , not of ours . We seem to prefer middle C. At the close of the essay in which Eiseley uses the metaphor of man as a spider at the center of his web , he ...
... reach for the top , always just beyond reach , is the music of Shakespeare's time , not of ours . We seem to prefer middle C. At the close of the essay in which Eiseley uses the metaphor of man as a spider at the center of his web , he ...
Page 62
... reach of history , whether in the adventures of the strang- ers who first brought European languages and customs into this alien land , or whether in the minds of these and earlier Euro- peans who nourished their faith on tales of ...
... reach of history , whether in the adventures of the strang- ers who first brought European languages and customs into this alien land , or whether in the minds of these and earlier Euro- peans who nourished their faith on tales of ...
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