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... immortal , as Burns would put it , between them " and the wa " . " What I would like to do in these pages is just this very thing . I would like to play pander between many sensitive and erotic souls and these immortal , invisible , and ...
... immortal , as Burns would put it , between them " and the wa " . " What I would like to do in these pages is just this very thing . I would like to play pander between many sensitive and erotic souls and these immortal , invisible , and ...
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... immortal principle in the universe . Proust , at the close of his great work , defines what he calls " the Im- mortal Being " in all of us in terms of accidental moments of conscious sense - ecstasy ; but for St. Paul this Immortal ...
... immortal principle in the universe . Proust , at the close of his great work , defines what he calls " the Im- mortal Being " in all of us in terms of accidental moments of conscious sense - ecstasy ; but for St. Paul this Immortal ...
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... immortal works of art . " But an " immortal work of art " in the purest sense is Moby Dick . In fact , I regard it as the greatest book about the sea ever written ; and it interests me to note how our best present - day sea - writer ...
... immortal works of art . " But an " immortal work of art " in the purest sense is Moby Dick . In fact , I regard it as the greatest book about the sea ever written ; and it interests me to note how our best present - day sea - writer ...
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