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... tion of my reader . It will suffice for the present , at any rate , if he will allow me to introduce myself to his acquaintance in no more important capacity than that of a young German doctor , and request him to accompany me on board ...
... tion of my reader . It will suffice for the present , at any rate , if he will allow me to introduce myself to his acquaintance in no more important capacity than that of a young German doctor , and request him to accompany me on board ...
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... tion from those concerts to which the musicians enter with their instruments already tuned . Oh thou dim , mysterious , narrow border - land of the wonderful world of sounds and dreams ! Homely old orchestra , dear hast thou ever been ...
... tion from those concerts to which the musicians enter with their instruments already tuned . Oh thou dim , mysterious , narrow border - land of the wonderful world of sounds and dreams ! Homely old orchestra , dear hast thou ever been ...
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... tion would fall at once like a mere mask , and be de- tected as a superficial grimace at the mercy of any rude chance that might choose to pluck it away . The soul wants not clothes ; but if she once puts them on , they should so finely ...
... tion would fall at once like a mere mask , and be de- tected as a superficial grimace at the mercy of any rude chance that might choose to pluck it away . The soul wants not clothes ; but if she once puts them on , they should so finely ...
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... seemed to hear , with the same uncomfortable sensa- tion , sharp and shrill , from some undistinguishable world of inner sounds , the long - drawn note of the hautboy . CHAPTER V. THE LORELEY IN PERSON . YES , it 36 THE DOCTOR .
... seemed to hear , with the same uncomfortable sensa- tion , sharp and shrill , from some undistinguishable world of inner sounds , the long - drawn note of the hautboy . CHAPTER V. THE LORELEY IN PERSON . YES , it 36 THE DOCTOR .
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... tion , and my mother's gentle firmness , carried the point . A physician I became , and a physician I am ; so far , at least , as the certificates of professors , some experience , and an ardent love of science can make me . In the ...
... tion , and my mother's gentle firmness , carried the point . A physician I became , and a physician I am ; so far , at least , as the certificates of professors , some experience , and an ardent love of science can make me . In the ...
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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