Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... evanescent . Herein it resembles the most excellent things , which all have this rainbow character , defying all attempts at appropriation and use . What else did Jean Paul Richter signify , when he said to music , " Away ! away ! thou ...
... evanescent . Herein it resembles the most excellent things , which all have this rainbow character , defying all attempts at appropriation and use . What else did Jean Paul Richter signify , when he said to music , " Away ! away ! thou ...
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... evanescent intercourse . I will receive from them , not what they have , but what they are . They shall give me that which properly they cannot give , but which ema- nates from them . But they shall not hold me by any relations less ...
... evanescent intercourse . I will receive from them , not what they have , but what they are . They shall give me that which properly they cannot give , but which ema- nates from them . But they shall not hold me by any relations less ...
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