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... later . For the moment it is enough that to the ordinary reader the difference is apparent . And it has been generally agreed to affix to the one type of epic the label ' primitive , ' and to the other the label ' literary . ' These two ...
... later . For the moment it is enough that to the ordinary reader the difference is apparent . And it has been generally agreed to affix to the one type of epic the label ' primitive , ' and to the other the label ' literary . ' These two ...
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... later books , though there is less magnificence , there is much exquisitely lovely writing ; but that much of the later books is frankly tedious , and the interminable discourses of the affable archangel , coming as they do at a crisis ...
... later books , though there is less magnificence , there is much exquisitely lovely writing ; but that much of the later books is frankly tedious , and the interminable discourses of the affable archangel , coming as they do at a crisis ...
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... Later , in our own literature , the threads were almost submerged in a great riot of full - blooded colour and flamboyant design , and when next they come to the surface there is a great deal of tinsel about which obscures them . Still ...
... Later , in our own literature , the threads were almost submerged in a great riot of full - blooded colour and flamboyant design , and when next they come to the surface there is a great deal of tinsel about which obscures them . Still ...
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