Sentence Examples
The poet James Wright, who grew up in Ohio, said the language or speech of his truest poems was Ohioan. |
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According to an invention of the poet, the real Helen was detained in Egypt by its king, who sent the seducer Paris packing to Troy. |
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For all his occasional gaucheness and undue display, he is the most thoughtful and provocative poet writing in English today. |
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This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Danish poet and writer. |
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According to the poet, Lord Ganesha, the Onkar-shaped omnipresent god, is the bestower of all kinds of boons. |
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I read them with great pleasure but with little or no thought for the agony the poet has gone through. |
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Author and poet asha bandele, wearing a long, black silk skirt and lavender headwrap is escorted by her young daughter, Nisa, who is four. |
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Set up by the city's most famous poet in 1919, it still retains the musty, order-through-chaos atmosphere of a true bibliophile's den. |
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He was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, the son of a secularist tailor. |
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She is an ingenious poet, a brilliant performer, a funny person, and serious thinker. |
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He was an Egyptian literary critic, novelist, and poet who became an important Islamist thinker and activist. |
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A poet must experience, rather than simulate reality or rely on second-hand information. |
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In addition to the poet, there is another type of versifier, the bard, who lacked the professional training of the fili. |
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El Greco was like a writer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a versifier, who had little command of syntax. |
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As discussed above, the city is the quintessential home of Auster's version of the post-modern poet. |
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His is not a book about poetry, and yet a canonical poet is consulted for the distinction that structures the book. |
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As was the custom at the time, he went to the house of the poet of Niall to ask for victuals for the journey. |
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I think that insofar as I am a poet, I was cut out to be a poet who needed a lot of time to get started. |
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For one thing, it lacked resemblance to the most popular photograph of the poet, featuring a youthful visage and spectacles. |
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In Stoppard's poignant and witty memory play, the poet lies on his deathbed remembering and misremembering his emotional and scholarly life. |
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The vital energy and expressive dances got me in touch with my inner Greek poet. |
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In recognition of this, he refuses an aspiring and destitute Bihari poet money, but pays for his meals. |
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In a press statement, the leaders have described Azad a poet par excellence and said his loss has created a void in literary circles. |
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He is the only Italian poet from the era to have achieved a considerable translatability and literary reputation abroad. |
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Albert Markovski is a poet and environmentalist fighting for greenspace against encroaching suburban sprawl. |
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The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech. |
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I could be, you know, like that Welsh poet who drank shedloads and wrote Under Milkwood. |
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This poem has outshone all the other works of the poet to whom it was misattributed. |
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We had this wonderful Byronic poet and, as with so many family stories, it was about love and money, and the loss of that money. |
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Possessing a romantic streak, he saw himself a Byronic man, an individualist and poet with deep sympathy for the oppressed. |
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Quinn simply did not like the elfinly angelic man dressed in a cross between a Byronic poet and a punk rocker sitting across from him. |
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The poet rushed to Palais Royal to be outfitted from head to foot, and he duly found the area lined with milliners. |
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It's not for nothing that this author published a dissertation on another poet of private systems, William Blake. |
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The show looks at the literary fame and social notoriety of the Romantic poet during his life and his contemporary legacy. |
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These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect. |
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It is a novelized version of the real-life love story between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. |
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Maria resisted convention by joining an Anglican sisterhood, and Christina, who never married, became the finest poet of the Tractarian movement. |
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The elderly poet chased the young man, belabouring him round the shoulders with a walking stick. |
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I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious. |
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Take a tip from famed poet Charles Bukowski and stop half-arsing your way through those new years resolutions. |
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Comic poet John Hegley returned to his old stamping ground last night to kick off the annual Bradford Book Festival. |
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Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, a monk and friend of William Canynge, a historical Bristol merchant. |
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Webb is still mining the streets for his hugely dramatic, beat poet lyrics, and they work as literature. |
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With his pointed goatee, he looked like a beat poet to outsiders, but mathematicians knew him as one of the greatest talents of his generation. |
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He was now a beat poet, he organised poetry slams in different areas and performed his hypnotic rhymes. |
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Not only has the poet repeatedly discovered different dramatic structures, she also discovered whole new octaves of tone. |
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This singular indebtedness is registered canto after canto, as both pilgrim and poet quite literally follow in Virgil's beloved footsteps. |
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Still, Reece is a poet and a clerk, as much at home now with pinpoint and broadcloth as with the meter and rhyme. |
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Made in 2003, he calls it a homage to his hero, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. |
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You wouldn't think that Humberside police actually need a beat poet would you. |
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An experimental film shot on a digital video camera, it's a semi-documentary on the life of Indonesian poet Kadir. |
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In the late nineteenth century, the Moldavian poet Mihai Eminescu celebrated the country's history and culture. |
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Surely Hawkins's contribution to the corpus will stand as one of the offerings most deserving of the laurel wreath the poet himself desired. |
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When a young poet fails to find the words he can moan and wail and lament his wanton muse, gone off and left him bereft and lonesome. |
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Each poet receives a critical and biographical appraisal and analysis, which is usually followed by a selection of their poems. |
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The two Latin words interrupt the miraculous transmutation of the classical poet into a speaker of contemporary Italian, creating a sudden lapse in time. |
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For the celebration, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins was commissioned to write an ode to the monument. |
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But by 1845, he had a state pension and in November 1850, he was a surprise pick for poet laureate. |
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The man who once chased visiting Edinburgh and Glasgow players back to their soft city enclaves with bumps and bruises all over their bodies is now a poet. |
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He has spent years as a visiting lecturer and poet in residence in various universities, but has never succumbed to the campus ailment of disappearing up his own alliteration. |
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He was multifaceted and multi-dimensional genius, who excelled in every sphere viz., as a teacher, a poet, a scholar and a public relations officer. |
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The poet also dreams nostalgically of bygone years and of lost childhood. |
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The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality. |
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The author of this new, third biography of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries. |
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He began painting with oils on wood, canvas, hardboard, paper and glass, working under the mentorship of his older son Mica, an artist, art historian, critic, poet. |
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Stewart quotes the Persian poet Rumi who was born in contemporary Afghanistan. |
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By August 31st, this important literary torch will pass from poet to poet. |
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Eliot, meanwhile, was more worried about his career as a poet than about his marriage, which had been undertaken mostly in the interests of that career. |
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This she did, choosing to write three lines by the German poet and philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder. |
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Last year the poet hit the headlines when he turned down the opportunity to be made an OBE, saying the award was a throwback to the days of the defunct British Empire. |
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A poet of inwardness, he focuses on the delicate self-consciousness of the young man as thematic contrast to his behaviour's transgressive nature. |
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The psychiatrists diagnosed him as a megalomaniac with delusions of being a great poet, economist, linguist, historian, and political adviser to heads of state. |
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Well, it's always said that one of the tests of a poet is memorability. |
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It is odd that today's strange vehicles should bear a close resemblance to those seen by a scornful poet at London's Rotten Row a couple of generations earlier. |
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The album ends with a recording of beat poet Charles Bukowski talking about his overriding need to escape the banality of his everyday working life. |
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A slightly tipsy poet can't blame his cat for wanting to join in the fun. |
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Renowned Knockanure writer and poet Dan Keane will be the toast of the Shannonside area next Friday night when a special function will be held in his honour. |
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The Irish poet and Nobel laureate, who died Friday at the age of 74, was often called accessible, as if it were a handicap. |
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All the performers wore cloth caps, in token of the proletarian poet whose doggerel verses about the Tay Bridge and its collapse in 1879 provided the work's text. |
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At this point, however, Burke recognizes that the poet has a rhetorical aptitude that compensates for metonymical reduction with rhetorical inducement. |
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Since his death an attempt has been made to minimise his importance and even to deny that he is a real poet and to describe him as a mere virtuoso and skilful metricist. |
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Dr Sunderman was a Renaissance man with accomplishments as a physician, clinical scientist, toxicologist, author, editor, violinist, poet, and photographer. |
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According to historians, Boyan was not a magician in the sense that he was able to cast spells, bewitch people and transform into animals, but he was a learned man and a poet. |
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While on her honeymoon with poet W.B. Yeats, she was devastated to discover he was pining for another woman. |
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For, as the poet Bialik said in another context, it is we who will pay the price of the blaze with our blood and marrow. |
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Michael, a young American poet, was a big influence on me at that time. |
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Erica Jong is a poet, novelist, and memoirist, and author of the groundbreaking novel Fear of Flying, among others. |
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I have a bipartite response to that question, the first reason being that Rimbaud, in his work and in his life, was perhaps the first truly modern poet. |
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Tim saw himself as a troubadour, a poet singing from the heart. |
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One doesn't have to be a hyphenated poet to belong to this school, but hyphenation and dislocation are well-mated in America. |
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Shelley's acquaintance, the pressman impresario George Cannon and Shelley's 1815 eulogizer and excerpter, the shoemaker poet Robert Charles Fair. |
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It's called poetic licence and, after all, as we shall be relentlessly reminded on his 100th birthday next year, he was a poet. |
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Meryman was a renowned biomedical researcher, inventor, poet, and founder of the field of cryobiology. |
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She was a writer, artist, poet and playwrite and described herself as a communist. |
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Iwas deeply saddened to hear of the death of the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney last week. |
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The striking images of Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney and Chronicles Of Narnia creator CS Lewis were painted by local artist Ross Wilson. |
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The spiritual understructure of Bly's perspective has consistently retrieved the poet himself from bitterness. |
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Sarah Freligh, whose poems have graced these pages, is both a sportswriter and a published poet. |
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Oscar Cortes Tapia, poet, president of correspondent, Seminario de Cultura Mexicana en Chilpancingo, Mexico. |
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Saparbek Kasmambetov is known Manas epic reciter, poet and improviser, while his wife Asangul Abdygulova is talented playwright, poet. |
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The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil. |
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Another excellent ancient description is that of the murrain of Noricum by the Roman poet Virgil. |
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Nearly all Renaissance epigrammatists looked back to Martial, the most prominent classical poet in the genre. |
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Among those who contributed to both serials were poet Ronald Campbell Macfie and Glasgow School artist Edward Atkinson Hornel. |
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Encomia of the poet whom all Greeks regarded as the progenitor of their entire literary tradition were a common practice. |
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A literary-music evening dedicated to Kyrgyz national poet, playwriter and interpreter Alykul Osmonov took place in Kyrgyzstan Embassy to Russia. |
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This debut from Danny Simmons, an abstract-expressionist painter and poet, succeeds more as a piece of pulp fiction than as a literary feat. |
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Because Why is an engaging collection of evocative and original poetry drawn from the work of teacher, creative writer, and poet Sarah Fox. |
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Long admired as a poet and proverbialist, Anonymous this year turned his pen to fiction. |
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The Emersonian poet falls for, and poeticizes about, not the conventional rose of European poetic tradition, but the undomesticated indigenously American flower. |
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This darkness troubles the poet, whose arguments reveal incongruence and potential chaos due to the irrational panic, as can be appreciated in the ongoing hyperbaton. |
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In Ariosto's satiric homage to the earlier poet, the only thing that emerges at the end of the scene is our hero, covered in feculence, nude, his wits lost. |
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The rest of the book in devoted to his writings as a philosopher, biblical commentator, linguist, poet, man of Halakhah, and polemist and publicist. |
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Yoder relates the issue of unriddling to his explanation of Emerson's concept of the Orphic poet, tracing the role of the poet as fiddle-solver back to Old English culture. |
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The author, a Coleridgian scholar, makes great use of the numerous illustrations to introduce the poet, critic and controversialist to new readers. |
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Those known to have taken part in the siege include the poet Sir Edmund Spenser and the explorer, coloniser, pirate and Munster plantation owner, Sir Walter Raleigh. |
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Its chapter on Milton supports McLoone's depiction of a poet perennially negotiating the conflict between establishmentarian authority and Puritan independency. |
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In 1824 Landon published one of her most popular works, The Improvisatrice, a long poem about a female Florentine poet who extemporizes verse for her audiences. |
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The great Andreas Scholl brings his reading of the poet in a programme entitled Songs of Myself, sung in both the counter tenor and the baritone register. |
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But no other example of gujin concretely situates the poet in a chronological context, rather the expression refers to all of history as a basis for comparison or contrast. |
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Over the years, he collaborates with the poet William Cowper on a hymnal. |
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It's all about consubstantiality or identification, which is not a state but a process of becoming that takes place in the liminal space between poet and poetized. |
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Akyn is an improvisatory poet and singer among the Kyrgyz people. |
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Oftentimes, though, as in the case of the lengthy explication of a poem by Irish Romantic poet Thomas Moore, Gates provides more information than we need or want to know. |
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Or is it the falling-downdrunk Dylan, the prototype, promiscuous, tosspot poet, the tormented soul of those last grave-chasing days across the ocean? |
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McClure and his wife, Joanna, along with the poet Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter Mary, were the models in the play of light and shadow that constitutes Spectre Mystagogic. |
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The impossible society, designed by Bataille, is in a certain way similar to the community of mysterial ecstasy which was described by the Russian poet and philosopher Ivanov. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
We may gather from some expressions of the poet that he was of a rash and haughty and unconciliatory temper. |
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Truly, as the poet says, there's a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. |
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With that he was poet, troubadour, orator, as well as very eccentric and attractive. |
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The spectacle recalls the opening lines of the great Promethean drama of the Greek poet. |
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Prospero is the poet, not only as poet, but the poet making his drama in the drama. |
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The most intransigent of modern revolutionaries might learn a trick or two from this sacred poet. |
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While we were in Macha, Mull Hijr,597 the poet, came from Ir and waited on me. |
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The strife which had begun between the poet and the maladroit agents of the Great Frederick was becoming serious. |
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Joel Barlow, the poet, was sent to Paris to negotiate the sale of the lands. |
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Stress is strongly laid by the poet upon the fact that Proteus is of Egypt. |
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The old man led off the meal by saying that Pushkin was a magnificent poet. |
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At least, we might gather from this passage that the poet was aware of the distinction between ruby and carbuncle. |
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As the tragic poet fills the stage with the legend, so the sculptor fills the metope with the legend. |
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We have also heard him mentioned as a poet and a brother-in-law of Maecenas. |
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And judas iscariot himself, said a popular poet, was in all probability a German. |
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We confess that the Roman poet often used to leave us cold and unexcited too. |
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The poet Guidi and the critic and jurisconsult Gravina checked this evil by their influence and example. |
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The martial poet Tyrtaeus, and the oligarch Theognis, furnish him with happy illustrations of the two sorts of courage. |
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An appropriate instrument was at hand in the Pindaric ode, the miscreation of a true poet, Cowley. |
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In spite of all that has been said Keats takes higher rank as poet than Wither? |
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In spite of Rimini, I must look upon its author as a man of taste, and a poet. |
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At last calling the poet laureate of his kingdom, he asked him what should be done. |
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Brizeux, the poet of Brittany, reminds us of the Lake Poets, though he knew nothing about them. |
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He became a quack poet, and hampered his talents by the imposition of a monstrous parade of rattletrap theories and professions. |
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In fact, they possessed him of a high degree of miltonian culture, which was what one wanted to have with respect to any poet. |
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Crowne too was a poet, as is evident from Thyestes, in spite of repulsiveness and rant. |
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In the first half the poet describes specific examples of what he calls History and landskip. |
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Thus before dinner I was a lawyer, and after dinner I was artist, poet, and reciter. |
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I have said, in an earlier chapter, that he might have been the poet laureate. |
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Im like a leopard and Im like a poet and Im like a religieuse and Im like an outlaw. |
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The power to destroy or remould is freely used by the greatest poet, but seldom the power of attack. |
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That such a faith is strange to India may be evidenced by the reception accorded to the poet Tagore in India itself. |
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Pushkin's brother poet Lermontov, then an officer of the Guards, wrote a poem demanding vengeance for Pushkin's death. |
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The poet speaks to us of one thing, but in this one thing there seems to lurk the secret of all. |
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Plato makes him typical of a sophist, Schlegel of a poet, Lucian of a dancer. |
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It was the work of a playmaker rather than a poet, and the verse had none of the elevation of Godfreys or Rogerss. |
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The poet now was separated from Lili, and striving to forget her in journeying about. |
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It was not a long play, and had been written by a court poet especially for the children, of whose acting the Queen was fond. |
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As a consequence, the poet retired for a time from Paris to banishment at Limoges. |
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At the distance of 50 stadia in the interior is thebe, uninhabited, which the poet says was situated below the woody Placus. |
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Yet many an old poet like Tennyson and Browning has preserved his romance to the end. |
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When Browning arose, literature was entirely in the hands of the Tennysonian poet. |
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Oh that that poet, the tearful exile in the pontic territory had never endured worse things! |
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You know there is a law which permits any modern poet to retouch a play of Aeschylus, and bring it forward as his own composition. |
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His life was so strange that the imagination of a poet is needed to revitalise it for us to-day. |
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The poet, hearing of the Sultn of RM's intentions, and wishing to avoid his munificence, took his departure to Tabrz. |
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How could a poet have bewailed his loves or losses in the stately structure of the Pindaric ode? |
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The Emperor was so pleased with pos talent that whenever he was feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him. |
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Martial had neither youthful passion nor youthful enthusiasm to make him precociously a poet. |
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We may call him the poet laureate of the Tories, with whom he warmly sided. |
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The poet Simonides is said to have been the founder of the mnemonic art. |
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She was the girl who was teaching the poet the elements of ping-pong. |
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Radha Mitchell appears as Lara, Jesse's platonic love, and Rosie Perez plays as a sexy poet in search of a man to launch her career. |
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Everybody of any education was either a poet or a poetaster. |
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From 1843 till his death in 1850 he was poet laureate of England. |
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I mean to say that there would be no poet laureate to begin with. |
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This poet was Heinrich Heine, who dominated me longer than any one author that I have known. |
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Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet. |
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Would-be poet Damis has fallen for the works of a mysterious Breton poetess, not knowing she is really his host, middle-aged gentlemen Francalou. |
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He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. |
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And such an idea culminates in the book's final section, in which the poet grapples with the very earthliness of Christ. |
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For the poet, in a fierce act of purgation, force-slimmed his poems to 68 pages. |
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Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. |
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The poet ennobled political life, the broader outlook of affairs enriched his poetry and humanised it. |
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It was through nature, ennobled in this way by the semblance of passion and thought, that the poet approached the spectacle of human life. |
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The Minister said he always learned something valuable in the company of Munnoo Bhai, who was an epoch-making poet. |
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Every dead painter, poet, or writer of genius, has had his recoverer. |
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The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but alter idem, in a manner totally new. |
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The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. |
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The vessel was originally built for Russia's Baltic Shipping Company and named after the poet Aleksandr Pushkin. |
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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. |
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Tesselschade was the daughter of the poet and rhetorician roemer Visscher. |
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He is distinguished alike as a critic, a poet, and a romancer. |
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The rondeau was much cultivated by the French poet, Clment Marot. |
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, not of the woman, but of the poet. |
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The levellers have their poet, and he made them a song with a fine lilt. |
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A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. |
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Transcribed by Scott and annotated by Parsloe, this volume presents the wartime journals of poet and Hocken Library influence Charles Brasch. |
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A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs. |
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The village poet likewise commemorated the young lady's grief in seventeen stanzas of a ballad. |
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Carlyle's judgements on the poet and his poems have often been quoted. |
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For Melius petere fontes, the jurist as well as the poet has it. |
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In fact, his imprisonment, as Eko's servant Nausicaa articulates, is vital to Tot's growth as a poet. |
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The known universe has one complete lover, and that is the greatest poet. |
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The poet came to the summerhouse and stood outside, irresolute. |
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I believe these men keep a supplicant, as Moses maintains a poet. |
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The historical form has at last found a poet to render it supportable. |
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The poet is one who has detected this latency of power in every breast. |
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The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken. |
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The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly. |
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For the eastern poet he symbolises strength, grace and symmetry. |
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Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study-not a passion-it becomes the metaphysician to reason-but the poet to protest. |
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His fame is greater as a dramatist and litterateur than as a poet. |
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But with the true poet every thing is terse, touching, or brilliant. |
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If you give yourself away to a poor poet who loves you, their disgust will be unbounded. |
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Permit me also, like Theophrastus, to borrow a few words from a poet. |
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The great lope, in 1630, acknowledged him as a poet and his friend. |
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Po Chu-i is above all the poet of human love and sorrow, and beyond all the consoler. |
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How majestical, how simple, how much a poet and a gentleman! |
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His fancy on the subject is a wild one, though not unfitted for the poet. |
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There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones. |
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Brother Owyn was a poet, and the prior of Malvern had found this out. |
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The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. |
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Mrs. toymaker remembered that the great poet, Goethe, had been born there. |
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You must have the imagination of a poet to transfigure them. |
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The anecdote related of Marini, the Italian poet, may be true. |
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Max Elskamp is a poet who reminds one that Mariolatry is Minnesong. |
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The poet then enlarges on the transitoriness of terrestrial love. |
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I think the notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own writings is another. |
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. |
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Meir of Rothenburg was a poet and martyr as well as a profound scholar. |
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A useful term coined by poet Gail Mazur for Lowell's hundreds of late, unrhymed fourteen-line poems. |
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He had the further mortification of seeing the very Shadwell whom he had so unsparingly ridiculed replace him as poet laureate. |
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The life of the great poet is underlaid with romance and sadness. |
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But there might also be as many unaccented syllables as the poet liked. |
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He was a famous poet in his day, and the world recognised his genius with a unanimity which the greater complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent. |
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And, with only a few drams of Scottish blood between them, why make the pilgrimage to commemorate the birth of the Ayrshire poet who went from ploughboy to playboy? |
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So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it. |
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The arcade was home to the Henry Osborne tool shop, record stores and the famous hippy bookstore called Ultima Thule run by Newcastle poet Tom Pickard. |
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The philosophy of this ancient poet appears to have been that of Horace. |
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The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power which makes their old use forgotten, and puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object. |
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Therefore we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form, whether in an ode or in an action or in looks and behavior has yielded us a new thought. |
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I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. |
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It won't be disputed, I think, that Curnow is not just the premier poet, but the best critic, the most effective controversialist, and indeed the most acute intellect. |
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A REPLICA of the Gadair Ddu, or Black Chair, awarded at the National Eisteddfod posthumously to poet Hedd Wyn is the centrepiece of a new temporary exhibition. |
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Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune. |
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In her town house a charge of small-shot, fired in any direction on a Thursday afternoon, could not have failed to bring down a poet, a novelist, or a painter. |
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A poet in love must be encouraged in both capacities, or neither. |
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I think the poet desired to embody in this one picture the whole spirit of medieval chivalry and the platonic love of a pure and high-souled knight. |
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It is a proud thing for a country to have given a subject for such an Odyssey, and to have had so early in its literature a poet worthy to celebrate it. |
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But looking backward we can see that the poet is the development of the minstrel, the prose writer the development of the monkish chronicler and copyist. |
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But scarcely had this little piece of brass seen the light, than the poet appeared to have committed an imprudence, and made a movement to put it back again in his pocket. |
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The poet looked on covetously as long as he could restrain himself. |
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