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... hands on himself . With singular luck in meeting good company , they next quarter themselves with a robber . During their stay his habitation is burned by the troops of Damas , but the lovers escape from the eunuch , by alleging that ...
... hands on himself . With singular luck in meeting good company , they next quarter themselves with a robber . During their stay his habitation is burned by the troops of Damas , but the lovers escape from the eunuch , by alleging that ...
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... hands on himself , after murdering his mistress ; and , sprinkled with the blood of these unfortunate victims , she returns to her paternal mansion . Sinonis , perceiving from the report of this girl , that she could no longer remain ...
... hands on himself , after murdering his mistress ; and , sprinkled with the blood of these unfortunate victims , she returns to her paternal mansion . Sinonis , perceiving from the report of this girl , that she could no longer remain ...
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... hand , I cannot agree with Rohde in absolutely rejecting the belief which is recorded by Socrates , chiefly on the ground of the internal evidence afforded by the work of its author's polytheistic and neo - Pytha- gorean ideas , the ...
... hand , I cannot agree with Rohde in absolutely rejecting the belief which is recorded by Socrates , chiefly on the ground of the internal evidence afforded by the work of its author's polytheistic and neo - Pytha- gorean ideas , the ...
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... hands of robbers . This , it is true , gives rise to many romantic incidents , but also produces an unvaried and tiresome recurrence of similar misfortunes . In works of art , we wish for that diversity exhibited in the appearances of ...
... hands of robbers . This , it is true , gives rise to many romantic incidents , but also produces an unvaried and tiresome recurrence of similar misfortunes . In works of art , we wish for that diversity exhibited in the appearances of ...
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... hands of banditti [ ii . 11 ] , from whom she is rescued by a young nobleman , named Perilaus , who becomes enamoured of her . Anthia , fearing violence , affects a consent to marry him [ ii . 13 ] ; but on the arrival of the appointed ...
... hands of banditti [ ii . 11 ] , from whom she is rescued by a young nobleman , named Perilaus , who becomes enamoured of her . Anthia , fearing violence , affects a consent to marry him [ ii . 13 ] ; but on the arrival of the appointed ...
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