The Indispensable Reader's Companion: A Personal Anthology Selected for Re-readability from the Writers of 2000 Years for the Reader of TodayBook Society, 1949 - 731 Seiten |
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... death scene . It occurs to me that this book may be overweighted with curious and awful death scenes : Socrates drinking the hemlock and Petronius opening his veins ; Ridley and Latimer perishing at the stake and Balmerino on the ...
... death scene . It occurs to me that this book may be overweighted with curious and awful death scenes : Socrates drinking the hemlock and Petronius opening his veins ; Ridley and Latimer perishing at the stake and Balmerino on the ...
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... death and did not find it . " Where is it ? What death ? " There was no fear because there was no death . In place of death there was light . " So that's what it is ! " he suddenly exclaimed aloud . " What joy ! " To him all this ...
... death and did not find it . " Where is it ? What death ? " There was no fear because there was no death . In place of death there was light . " So that's what it is ! " he suddenly exclaimed aloud . " What joy ! " To him all this ...
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... death , you numberless infinities Of souls , and to your scattered bodies go , All whom the flood did , and fire shall o'erthrow , All whom war , dearth , age , agues , tyrannies , Despair , law , chance , hath slain , and you whose ...
... death , you numberless infinities Of souls , and to your scattered bodies go , All whom the flood did , and fire shall o'erthrow , All whom war , dearth , age , agues , tyrannies , Despair , law , chance , hath slain , and you whose ...
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THE DEATH OF SOCRATES | 1 |
ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 15 |
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