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... line . In all such cases he has endeavoured to steer , as far as possible , a middle course , but in no case , although not adopting the actual wording of his original , knowingly to depart from its sense . The difficulty of hitting the ...
... line . In all such cases he has endeavoured to steer , as far as possible , a middle course , but in no case , although not adopting the actual wording of his original , knowingly to depart from its sense . The difficulty of hitting the ...
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... Excommunication cut a man , off from personal intercourse with others . It was the punishment for abducting a monk from a monastery , see line 269 . RE SIXTH CANTO . EINEKE thus once more the royal CANTO V. ] 71 REINEKE FOX .
... Excommunication cut a man , off from personal intercourse with others . It was the punishment for abducting a monk from a monastery , see line 269 . RE SIXTH CANTO . EINEKE thus once more the royal CANTO V. ] 71 REINEKE FOX .
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... line and 1. 151 does not exist in the older versions of the poem , in which firearms are mentioned in both places . Their use dates from the fourteenth century . 2 It was the marshal's duty to carry out sentences of death . Now , my ...
... line and 1. 151 does not exist in the older versions of the poem , in which firearms are mentioned in both places . Their use dates from the fourteenth century . 2 It was the marshal's duty to carry out sentences of death . Now , my ...
Page 198
... lines throughout a piece end either in the same word or in the same rhyme , a measure which it would of course be impossible to follow in any foreign language . WEST - EASTERN DIVAN . I. MOGHANNI NAMAH ; OR 198 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
... lines throughout a piece end either in the same word or in the same rhyme , a measure which it would of course be impossible to follow in any foreign language . WEST - EASTERN DIVAN . I. MOGHANNI NAMAH ; OR 198 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
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... but the idea does not seem to hang together with the subject of the preceding lines . 3 Based on a saying of Agricola : " Four things cannot be hidden : However closely you may confine , From sparkling eyes it 204 WEST - EASTERN DIVAN .
... but the idea does not seem to hang together with the subject of the preceding lines . 3 Based on a saying of Agricola : " Four things cannot be hidden : However closely you may confine , From sparkling eyes it 204 WEST - EASTERN DIVAN .
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