Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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Page vii
... hands till we cross our hands for good under the sod , against anything that is surprising and new . Trying to live with a genius is like trying to live with Mr. Shandy , Falstaff , Tom Sawyer , or any other character we greatly love ...
... hands till we cross our hands for good under the sod , against anything that is surprising and new . Trying to live with a genius is like trying to live with Mr. Shandy , Falstaff , Tom Sawyer , or any other character we greatly love ...
Page ix
... hands of his mind over senseless apple wood and making it speak exactly as Frost's plain dictionary words speak after he gets a few of them alone in a study and sees what he can make them do . The snow on those roofs bulges out like ...
... hands of his mind over senseless apple wood and making it speak exactly as Frost's plain dictionary words speak after he gets a few of them alone in a study and sees what he can make them do . The snow on those roofs bulges out like ...
Page xiii
... hands were busy all right . And Lankes's left fingers and thumb have eyes in them . They are his real eyes . In a few minutes he had my corn ears done . He printed the block off . There it was , that geometry of parallels of American ...
... hands were busy all right . And Lankes's left fingers and thumb have eyes in them . They are his real eyes . In a few minutes he had my corn ears done . He printed the block off . There it was , that geometry of parallels of American ...
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