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... POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's son - Cupid and Psyche The road to ruin -- The chariot of the Sun - Stories of the stars - Perseus and Andromeda - Echo and Narcissus- In the beginning - The birth of Jupiter - The ...
... POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's son - Cupid and Psyche The road to ruin -- The chariot of the Sun - Stories of the stars - Perseus and Andromeda - Echo and Narcissus- In the beginning - The birth of Jupiter - The ...
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... POEMS . 42 From a drawing by Paul Chenavard in the Museum , Lyons . Photo : Braun PREPARING FOR THE SIEGE OF TROY 43 From a drawing by Paul Chenavard in the Museum , Lyons . Photo : Braun " THE WINE OF CIRCE " ( Coloured Illustration ) ...
... POEMS . 42 From a drawing by Paul Chenavard in the Museum , Lyons . Photo : Braun PREPARING FOR THE SIEGE OF TROY 43 From a drawing by Paul Chenavard in the Museum , Lyons . Photo : Braun " THE WINE OF CIRCE " ( Coloured Illustration ) ...
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... aims at placing that work in historical perspective , showing that from the beginning until now , from the nameless poets of the earliest scriptures down to 1 Robert Browning , the spirit of man when most 3 INTRODUCTION.
... aims at placing that work in historical perspective , showing that from the beginning until now , from the nameless poets of the earliest scriptures down to 1 Robert Browning , the spirit of man when most 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... poets down to Walter Savage Landor , to whom it would have been possible for some of the readers of this OUT- LINE to have spoken . Or to take another , and by the taste of to - day , a more popular example . The hungry reader of the ...
... poets down to Walter Savage Landor , to whom it would have been possible for some of the readers of this OUT- LINE to have spoken . Or to take another , and by the taste of to - day , a more popular example . The hungry reader of the ...
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... poem by Chaucer written five hundred years ago , and to note the immense difference between the English of Chaucer and the English of to - day , makes it easy to realise the extraordinary unchangeableness of the Chinese language . The ...
... poem by Chaucer written five hundred years ago , and to note the immense difference between the English of Chaucer and the English of to - day , makes it easy to realise the extraordinary unchangeableness of the Chinese language . The ...
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