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Page 24
... Death is either an unawakening dreamless sleep or it is the continuation of personal existence under more favorable circumstances . In either case it is a gain over the present life . " " The doubtful doom of human kind , " the limita ...
... Death is either an unawakening dreamless sleep or it is the continuation of personal existence under more favorable circumstances . In either case it is a gain over the present life . " " The doubtful doom of human kind , " the limita ...
Page 61
... death , death , death , thou ever - floating cloud - I pray thee pass before my light of life And shadow all my soul that I may die . Its impressiveness is heightened when we remember that it was pronounced in the open air to an ...
... death , death , death , thou ever - floating cloud - I pray thee pass before my light of life And shadow all my soul that I may die . Its impressiveness is heightened when we remember that it was pronounced in the open air to an ...
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... death of Oedipus in some mystic fashion known only to The- seus , and in some secret place where he is swallowed up by the riven earth a description which De Quincey and other critics have pronounced the most sublime thing in Greek ...
... death of Oedipus in some mystic fashion known only to The- seus , and in some secret place where he is swallowed up by the riven earth a description which De Quincey and other critics have pronounced the most sublime thing in Greek ...
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