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... dread , to gaze on death .-- Differing views of Lamartine , Moore , Perthes , F. Schlegel , Emily Bronté , P. F. Tytler , Goethe , etc. - Disfiguring and transfiguring power of death . - Placid and revolting aspects of the last sleep ...
... dread , to gaze on death .-- Differing views of Lamartine , Moore , Perthes , F. Schlegel , Emily Bronté , P. F. Tytler , Goethe , etc. - Disfiguring and transfiguring power of death . - Placid and revolting aspects of the last sleep ...
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... dreaded foe , the strong South - west in anger blowing from the distant sea ; within which solitary hut the dame beguiled by labour the winter's day , - " Until the expected hour at which her mate From the far - distant quarry's vault ...
... dreaded foe , the strong South - west in anger blowing from the distant sea ; within which solitary hut the dame beguiled by labour the winter's day , - " Until the expected hour at which her mate From the far - distant quarry's vault ...
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... dread spectre . At the close of the impassioned interview between Zenobia and Hollingsworth in The Blithedale Ro- mance , " Methought , " says the romancer , " as the declining sun threw Zenobia's magnified shadow along the path , I ...
... dread spectre . At the close of the impassioned interview between Zenobia and Hollingsworth in The Blithedale Ro- mance , " Methought , " says the romancer , " as the declining sun threw Zenobia's magnified shadow along the path , I ...
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... dread record of a guest in the narrator's house - a guest unbidden - that stays without a welcome from his host , who hears his tireless footsteps in the lonely halls , in the chill hours of night ; and in the day they climb the stairs ...
... dread record of a guest in the narrator's house - a guest unbidden - that stays without a welcome from his host , who hears his tireless footsteps in the lonely halls , in the chill hours of night ; and in the day they climb the stairs ...
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... dreaded to approach it , lest Rebecca should no longer be an inhabitant . " And when at length he plucked up courage enough to enter the churchyard , in his way to it , he moved along slowly and tremblingly , stopping to read here and ...
... dreaded to approach it , lest Rebecca should no longer be an inhabitant . " And when at length he plucked up courage enough to enter the churchyard , in his way to it , he moved along slowly and tremblingly , stopping to read here and ...
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