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... live . In the sun or the rain I wanted to go out and come in , and never again know the pain of the unquiet spirit . I looked forward to an awakening not without dread for we are as helpless before birth as in the presence of death ...
... live . In the sun or the rain I wanted to go out and come in , and never again know the pain of the unquiet spirit . I looked forward to an awakening not without dread for we are as helpless before birth as in the presence of death ...
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... live ! An odour will sometimes set the blood coursing in an old emotion , and a line of poetry is the resurrection and the life . For a moment I forgot Harriet and the agent , I forgot myself , I even forgot the book on my knee ...
... live ! An odour will sometimes set the blood coursing in an old emotion , and a line of poetry is the resurrection and the life . For a moment I forgot Harriet and the agent , I forgot myself , I even forgot the book on my knee ...
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... live close to the soil . When I had finished - I stopped with the stanza beginning : " Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way " ; the agent turned away his head trying to brave out his emo- tion . Most of us , Anglo - Saxons ...
... live close to the soil . When I had finished - I stopped with the stanza beginning : " Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way " ; the agent turned away his head trying to brave out his emo- tion . Most of us , Anglo - Saxons ...
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... live not in life , but in printed reports of life . They gather the odour of odours , not the odour itself : they do not hear , they overhear . A poor , sad , second - rate existence ! Bring out your social remedies ! They will fail ...
... live not in life , but in printed reports of life . They gather the odour of odours , not the odour itself : they do not hear , they overhear . A poor , sad , second - rate existence ! Bring out your social remedies ! They will fail ...
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... lives : neither sights , nor sounds , nor emotions : a sort of mortal immortality . Was not Shake- speare great because he lost less of the savings of his senses than other men ? What a wonderful seer , hearer , smeller , taster ...
... lives : neither sights , nor sounds , nor emotions : a sort of mortal immortality . Was not Shake- speare great because he lost less of the savings of his senses than other men ? What a wonderful seer , hearer , smeller , taster ...
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