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... eye that is disturbed . It sees you sitting slantwise to the universe , and being a ground - animal's eye , accustomed to see the ground squarely under you and the sky squarely above , it protests . Close your eyes , and you will feel ...
... eye that is disturbed . It sees you sitting slantwise to the universe , and being a ground - animal's eye , accustomed to see the ground squarely under you and the sky squarely above , it protests . Close your eyes , and you will feel ...
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... eye was splendidly inaccurate . Cooper seldom saw anything correctly . He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye , darkly . Of course a man who cannot see the commonest little every - day ... eyes that COOPER'S LITERARY 213 OFFENSES.
... eye was splendidly inaccurate . Cooper seldom saw anything correctly . He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye , darkly . Of course a man who cannot see the commonest little every - day ... eyes that COOPER'S LITERARY 213 OFFENSES.
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A Critical Anthology John Lincoln Stewart. It is quite impossible . Very well ; eyes that cannot see a house- fly ... eye to see a fly or a nail - head at fifty yards — one hundred and fifty feet . Can the reader do it ? The nail was ...
A Critical Anthology John Lincoln Stewart. It is quite impossible . Very well ; eyes that cannot see a house- fly ... eye to see a fly or a nail - head at fifty yards — one hundred and fifty feet . Can the reader do it ? The nail was ...
Contents
Introductory Comment | 3 |
When Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes JOHN DICKSON CARR | 11 |
New England Xanadu SIGMUND DIAMOND | 32 |
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