She would labour to make it perfect, to make it beautiful, till it became the very epic of the South, till all could read in one volume the knowledge she was seeking in books, in fragments, in pictures, in stones, in the whole of the land itself. At this... Development: A Novel - Page 59by Bryher - 1920 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
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...the impetuousness, the ignorance, perhaps, of twelve, accepting no impossibilities, she fashioned, vaguely, it was true, but decisively the vision of...way to keep, to touch the immortality of a greatness impos67 sible to escape, in the ruins of Akragas or at Naxos, that heap of fallen stones, beautiful... | |
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