The London Mercury, Volume 16Field Press Limited, 1927 - English literature |
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... seems tame , halting . But eloquence , with what it springs from , is out of date . It may come in again ? Well , then Argallo will come in again , amidst the plaudits of the young . His first entry had made no stir at all . Few people ...
... seems tame , halting . But eloquence , with what it springs from , is out of date . It may come in again ? Well , then Argallo will come in again , amidst the plaudits of the young . His first entry had made no stir at all . Few people ...
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... seems ) his best . And yet , no ! For who shall say the great wide - bosomed river is better than the little mountain- spring ? " " Stop ! " cried Argallo , and he read aloud the last sentence . Two lines of sheer blank verse ! I don't ...
... seems ) his best . And yet , no ! For who shall say the great wide - bosomed river is better than the little mountain- spring ? " " Stop ! " cried Argallo , and he read aloud the last sentence . Two lines of sheer blank verse ! I don't ...
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... seems incredible that Webb's work was original , and not a translation of ancient Chinese records . Varied as are the opinions of the writers on the Chinese language , con- cerning its origin , its place in general philology and its ...
... seems incredible that Webb's work was original , and not a translation of ancient Chinese records . Varied as are the opinions of the writers on the Chinese language , con- cerning its origin , its place in general philology and its ...
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... seems not unlikely that Spitteler would have blossomed out into one of the greatest painters of Switzerland rather than into its greatest poet . As it was , music and painting both proved blind alleys , except in so far as his studies ...
... seems not unlikely that Spitteler would have blossomed out into one of the greatest painters of Switzerland rather than into its greatest poet . As it was , music and painting both proved blind alleys , except in so far as his studies ...
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... seems to have been no reason to suspect the existence of any such latent impulses . He did not want to go to the desert . He had a quiet office job in Cairo , and he liked it . When they ordered him to Arabia , as the Emir Feisal's ...
... seems to have been no reason to suspect the existence of any such latent impulses . He did not want to go to the desert . He had a quiet office job in Cairo , and he liked it . When they ordered him to Arabia , as the Emir Feisal's ...
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