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... strange first air raid of the war - it was , of course , a false alarm - came to Rodmell on a lovely autumnal or late summer day . It came , I think , just after or before breakfast and I walked out onto the lawn which looks over the ...
... strange first air raid of the war - it was , of course , a false alarm - came to Rodmell on a lovely autumnal or late summer day . It came , I think , just after or before breakfast and I walked out onto the lawn which looks over the ...
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... strange mix- ture of innocence and wisdom . The purity , moral and mental , was the most remarkable of Moore's qualities ; I have never known anything like it in any other human being . It was as though Socrates , Aristotle , and the ...
... strange mix- ture of innocence and wisdom . The purity , moral and mental , was the most remarkable of Moore's qualities ; I have never known anything like it in any other human being . It was as though Socrates , Aristotle , and the ...
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... strange , showing her pre- occupation with death : * A blank . All frost . Still frost . Burning white . Burn- ing blue . The elms red . I did not mean to describe , once more , the downs in snow ; but it came . And I can't help even ...
... strange , showing her pre- occupation with death : * A blank . All frost . Still frost . Burning white . Burn- ing blue . The elms red . I did not mean to describe , once more , the downs in snow ; but it came . And I can't help even ...
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