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Page 143
... cannot hope to live so long in our names , as some have done in their persons . One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other . ' Tis too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be too ...
... cannot hope to live so long in our names , as some have done in their persons . One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other . ' Tis too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be too ...
Page 262
... cannot stop or rest , and still presses onward , but in vain . Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world ; but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond . Neither again can it ...
... cannot stop or rest , and still presses onward , but in vain . Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world ; but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond . Neither again can it ...
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... cannot read an author for the first time in the same way that we read the latest book by an established author . In a new author , we tend to see either only his virtues or only his defects and , even if we do see both , we cannot see ...
... cannot read an author for the first time in the same way that we read the latest book by an established author . In a new author , we tend to see either only his virtues or only his defects and , even if we do see both , we cannot see ...
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Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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