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... matter that Nausicaa is a king's daughter ? She is a girl playing with her companions , a type of eternal maidenhood . What does it matter , when we sit in the hut watching Achilles ' agony over Patroclus , that his father is a king and ...
... matter that Nausicaa is a king's daughter ? She is a girl playing with her companions , a type of eternal maidenhood . What does it matter , when we sit in the hut watching Achilles ' agony over Patroclus , that his father is a king and ...
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... matter of course reads poetry , but actually aloud . You may be thinking that I stress unduly the importance of metre . I doubt whether its importance can be unduly stressed , and I am sure that it is usually unduly neglected ...
... matter of course reads poetry , but actually aloud . You may be thinking that I stress unduly the importance of metre . I doubt whether its importance can be unduly stressed , and I am sure that it is usually unduly neglected ...
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... matter of practice , indeed of necessity , conform to them , And the result is a limitation of range , since only ... matters very little whether he is transformed into a strumpet's fool or into anything else ; but if he is the triple ...
... matter of practice , indeed of necessity , conform to them , And the result is a limitation of range , since only ... matters very little whether he is transformed into a strumpet's fool or into anything else ; but if he is the triple ...
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