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... beauty held for Ruth : a beauty beyond speech . Only one thing troubled her . She found their cries somehow discordant not , of course , discordant in themselves , but discordant to the occasion . This response puzzled me at first ...
... beauty held for Ruth : a beauty beyond speech . Only one thing troubled her . She found their cries somehow discordant not , of course , discordant in themselves , but discordant to the occasion . This response puzzled me at first ...
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... beauty or love , is thoroughly Elizabethan and growing strange to modern ears : " Admir'd Miranda ! / Indeed the top of admiration , worth / What's dearest to the world ! " The " ideal " of our time is the mediocre — the average man ...
... beauty or love , is thoroughly Elizabethan and growing strange to modern ears : " Admir'd Miranda ! / Indeed the top of admiration , worth / What's dearest to the world ! " The " ideal " of our time is the mediocre — the average man ...
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... beauty of its wild things , its immense spaces and si- lences and the sense of remoteness from the world's hurly - burly which these give . The inhabitants of Desert Hot Springs put these things more simply . They said they had come ...
... beauty of its wild things , its immense spaces and si- lences and the sense of remoteness from the world's hurly - burly which these give . The inhabitants of Desert Hot Springs put these things more simply . They said they had come ...
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