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... figures . From their very incompleteness the figures in Sigurd have a grandeur of their own , like a Rodin bronze , but they are removed too far from the ordinary human plane . Further , Homer shares with other creative artists of the ...
... figures . From their very incompleteness the figures in Sigurd have a grandeur of their own , like a Rodin bronze , but they are removed too far from the ordinary human plane . Further , Homer shares with other creative artists of the ...
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... figures . There remain the fallen angels ; they are capable of all human emotions and weaknesses , so that the one conflict is possible , and even in the case of the other it is clear that , where the issue is foreknown , the forlorn ...
... figures . There remain the fallen angels ; they are capable of all human emotions and weaknesses , so that the one conflict is possible , and even in the case of the other it is clear that , where the issue is foreknown , the forlorn ...
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... figures in Greek lyric . They are the figures of the Watts picture , but with a clarity of outline of which that beautiful colourist and somewhat woolly allegorist was seldom capable , Love and Death . It is when dealing with these two ...
... figures in Greek lyric . They are the figures of the Watts picture , but with a clarity of outline of which that beautiful colourist and somewhat woolly allegorist was seldom capable , Love and Death . It is when dealing with these two ...
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