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... beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and Pierre Loti had prepared me for that , and though it is a difficult beauty it is not a greater beauty than that of Greece or Southern Italy ; nor was it their ramshackle ...
... beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and Pierre Loti had prepared me for that , and though it is a difficult beauty it is not a greater beauty than that of Greece or Southern Italy ; nor was it their ramshackle ...
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... BEAUTY STANDS IN a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
... BEAUTY STANDS IN a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
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... beauty that object , spiritual or material , more often material , which satisfies our ęsthetic sense . That ... beauty . The museums . are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful , but which seem ...
... beauty that object , spiritual or material , more often material , which satisfies our ęsthetic sense . That ... beauty . The museums . are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful , but which seem ...
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