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... look for a principle , we feel the need of a criterion , of a standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the other ...
... look for a principle , we feel the need of a criterion , of a standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the other ...
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... look behind a shield for the heart . But , with those of seraphic nature , or so filled with spirit that translation may be near , it seems to hover before or around , announcing or enfold- ing them like a luminous atmosphere . Such an ...
... look behind a shield for the heart . But , with those of seraphic nature , or so filled with spirit that translation may be near , it seems to hover before or around , announcing or enfold- ing them like a luminous atmosphere . Such an ...
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... looks up after a few moments ' silence ) -Pardon , my lord , if I have not fit words to answer you . The flood of your thought has swept over me like music , and like that , for the time , at least , it fills and satisfies . I am ...
... looks up after a few moments ' silence ) -Pardon , my lord , if I have not fit words to answer you . The flood of your thought has swept over me like music , and like that , for the time , at least , it fills and satisfies . I am ...
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... look , it seem'd denied All earthly powers but hers , yet so As if to her breath he did owe This borrow'd life , he thus replied— And shall our love , so far beyond That low and dying appetite , And which so chaste desires unite , Not ...
... look , it seem'd denied All earthly powers but hers , yet so As if to her breath he did owe This borrow'd life , he thus replied— And shall our love , so far beyond That low and dying appetite , And which so chaste desires unite , Not ...
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... look back . George Herbert bent upon the scene a half - abstracted look , yet which had a celestial tearfulness in it , a pensiveness beyond joy . His brother looked on him , and , beneath that fading twilight , it seemed to him a farewell ...
... look back . George Herbert bent upon the scene a half - abstracted look , yet which had a celestial tearfulness in it , a pensiveness beyond joy . His brother looked on him , and , beneath that fading twilight , it seemed to him a farewell ...
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