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... doubt , individual lines , but I doubt whether there are any sustained passages , in Virgil , which even to a sensitive ear 1 Aeneid vi . 314. " They kept stretching out their hands in longing for the farther shore . ' 2 Aeneid x . 745 ...
... doubt , individual lines , but I doubt whether there are any sustained passages , in Virgil , which even to a sensitive ear 1 Aeneid vi . 314. " They kept stretching out their hands in longing for the farther shore . ' 2 Aeneid x . 745 ...
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... doubt whether its importance can be unduly stressed , and I am sure that it is usually unduly neglected , relegated to the sphere of the merely technical , of the things which are all very well in their way for pedantic persons who like ...
... doubt whether its importance can be unduly stressed , and I am sure that it is usually unduly neglected , relegated to the sphere of the merely technical , of the things which are all very well in their way for pedantic persons who like ...
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... doubt possible to isolate the tragic elements in life and make an artistic creation of them , or to isolate the comic elements and make a similar creation of them ; and no doubt also by taking the two creations in turn it is possible to ...
... doubt possible to isolate the tragic elements in life and make an artistic creation of them , or to isolate the comic elements and make a similar creation of them ; and no doubt also by taking the two creations in turn it is possible to ...
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