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Page viii
... craft . And one critic who gets into the papers pretty often wrote a long criticism of Frost , lately , in which he took pains to show how Robert Frost has never written a line of poetry and how , viii being the man he is , he never can .
... craft . And one critic who gets into the papers pretty often wrote a long criticism of Frost , lately , in which he took pains to show how Robert Frost has never written a line of poetry and how , viii being the man he is , he never can .
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... jewels , which are kernels , hung by braided leaves . There was a pattern of right lines and curves as fine as any acanthus leaf that ever brushed an Athenian ankle . One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures xiii.
... jewels , which are kernels , hung by braided leaves . There was a pattern of right lines and curves as fine as any acanthus leaf that ever brushed an Athenian ankle . One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures xiii.
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Thomas Gray. One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures up well there , too . He takes infinite pains . He takes time to get things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping ...
Thomas Gray. One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures up well there , too . He takes infinite pains . He takes time to get things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping ...
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