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Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that "describes," for the realists and naturalists worshipping th ...
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a ...
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled ...
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent a ...
So spake our Father penitent; nor Eve
Felt less remorse. They, forthwith to the place
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All hail! the pow'r of Jesus' Name;
Let angels prostrate fall;
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Lo, thus, as prostrate, \'In the dust I write
My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears.'
...
This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolate region. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt abou ...
That which we kept off, and toward which the waves were driving, was as dreary and harborless a shore as you can conceive. For hal ...
One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would alway ...
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