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... seems an understatement . The image itself no more necessarily connotes fear of disaster during parting than it does death at parting , or , as George Eliot has it , the idea that ' In every parting there is an image of death . ' In ...
... seems an understatement . The image itself no more necessarily connotes fear of disaster during parting than it does death at parting , or , as George Eliot has it , the idea that ' In every parting there is an image of death . ' In ...
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... seems idolatry with some excuse When our fore - father Druids in their oaks ( 9–11 ) Imagin'd sanctity . The first line , with the Druids as yet unmentioned , can be taken as saying , ' There is excuse for my worshipping the tree , even ...
... seems idolatry with some excuse When our fore - father Druids in their oaks ( 9–11 ) Imagin'd sanctity . The first line , with the Druids as yet unmentioned , can be taken as saying , ' There is excuse for my worshipping the tree , even ...
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... seems half - aware of this ) could reason disprove the picture ? Nothing that has been said of what might have happened to the tree and what did is beyond possi- bility . What seems to be revealed here is a distaste on the part of the ...
... seems half - aware of this ) could reason disprove the picture ? Nothing that has been said of what might have happened to the tree and what did is beyond possi- bility . What seems to be revealed here is a distaste on the part of the ...
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