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... examine Sigurd or Burnt Njal you will find a remarkable paucity of simile . A hap- hazard selection of ten consecutive pages of Sigurd yielded the following : ' Green as the ocean , ' which is merely commonplace ; ' thy visage gleams ...
... examine Sigurd or Burnt Njal you will find a remarkable paucity of simile . A hap- hazard selection of ten consecutive pages of Sigurd yielded the following : ' Green as the ocean , ' which is merely commonplace ; ' thy visage gleams ...
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... examining our general impressions , and ask ourselves the question which we asked before ; what is it in Milton that we particularly remember ? Is it individual lines and short passages ... examine ; but it 70 STUDIES IN THREE LITERATURES.
... examining our general impressions , and ask ourselves the question which we asked before ; what is it in Milton that we particularly remember ? Is it individual lines and short passages ... examine ; but it 70 STUDIES IN THREE LITERATURES.
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... examine wherein this difference consists , you will find , I think , this : that it consists in whereas in other ... examining certain salient points of difference between the dramas of Elizabethan England and of Athens it may be worth ...
... examine wherein this difference consists , you will find , I think , this : that it consists in whereas in other ... examining certain salient points of difference between the dramas of Elizabethan England and of Athens it may be worth ...
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