Deacon's Composition and Style: A Handbook for Literary Students, with a Complete Guide to All Matters Connected with Printing and PublishingC.W. Deacon & Company, 1889 - 320 pages |
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... heaven is renewed . Suppose then the poet had been necessitated by the laws of his language to have said — Each hill retir'd to its place -Heaven renewed its wonted face — how prosaic and lifeless would these neuters have appeared ; how ...
... heaven is renewed . Suppose then the poet had been necessitated by the laws of his language to have said — Each hill retir'd to its place -Heaven renewed its wonted face — how prosaic and lifeless would these neuters have appeared ; how ...
Page 261
... Heaven he had now found it all out ; was in doubt and darkness no longer , but saw it all . That all these Idols and Formulas were nothing , miserable bits of wood ; that there was One God in and over all ; and we must leave all Idols ...
... Heaven he had now found it all out ; was in doubt and darkness no longer , but saw it all . That all these Idols and Formulas were nothing , miserable bits of wood ; that there was One God in and over all ; and we must leave all Idols ...
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... Heaven's wind driving them ; anon they lie motionless , God has withdrawn the wind , they lie dead , and cannot stir ! Miracles ? cries he : What miracle would you have ? Are not you yourselves there ? God made you , ' shaped you out of ...
... Heaven's wind driving them ; anon they lie motionless , God has withdrawn the wind , they lie dead , and cannot stir ! Miracles ? cries he : What miracle would you have ? Are not you yourselves there ? God made you , ' shaped you out of ...
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