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Page 255
... once be said that it cannot be approached profitably in any light or easy mood . Once to have come under the spell of the serene mastery of Milton's genius is to be made free of it for ever . It is impossible once to like Milton's ...
... once be said that it cannot be approached profitably in any light or easy mood . Once to have come under the spell of the serene mastery of Milton's genius is to be made free of it for ever . It is impossible once to like Milton's ...
Page 259
... once more , O ye laurels , and once more Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude , And with forced fingers rude , Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . . . . or Keats , who says ...
... once more , O ye laurels , and once more Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude , And with forced fingers rude , Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . . . . or Keats , who says ...
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... once met a Polish sailor , yet for all his seamanship and for all his mastery of English he is still a Pole . In temperament , definitely Slavonic , as a novelist the disciple of the great Russians , being himself a man apart , Conrad ...
... once met a Polish sailor , yet for all his seamanship and for all his mastery of English he is still a Pole . In temperament , definitely Slavonic , as a novelist the disciple of the great Russians , being himself a man apart , Conrad ...
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