The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume 4Scribner, 2007 |
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Page 185
... words and in argument . He is indeed the Creator of the standards of manners in their subtlety , for he alone can know the ancient records and be like some mystic courtier who has stolen the keys from the gir- dle of time , and can ...
... words and in argument . He is indeed the Creator of the standards of manners in their subtlety , for he alone can know the ancient records and be like some mystic courtier who has stolen the keys from the gir- dle of time , and can ...
Page 196
... words the most personal , and that is why musicians do not like words . They masticate them for a long time , being afraid they would not be able to digest them , and when the words are so broken and softened and mixed with spittle that ...
... words the most personal , and that is why musicians do not like words . They masticate them for a long time , being afraid they would not be able to digest them , and when the words are so broken and softened and mixed with spittle that ...
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... words have called up before me the image of the sea - born woman so distinctly that Deirdre seems by con- trast to those unshaken eyelids that had but the sea's cold blood what I had wished her to seem , a wild bird in a cage.1 It was ...
... words have called up before me the image of the sea - born woman so distinctly that Deirdre seems by con- trast to those unshaken eyelids that had but the sea's cold blood what I had wished her to seem , a wild bird in a cage.1 It was ...
Contents
Editors Preface and Acknowledgments | xiii |
Abbreviations | xvii |
Illustrations | xxi |
Copyright | |
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