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Donne
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Nori ebbe un attimo di esitazione. Aveva solo qualche secondo. Non le veniva in mente niente da dire a quella donna. Erano una puttana e la sua signora, una principessa decaduta e una pezzente arricchita, una serva e una padrona. In quel momento però non sembravano più nulla di tutto ciò. Erano solo due donne a testa bassa contro il vento.
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― Fifty Words for Rain
― Fifty Words for Rain
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About Donne there hangs the shadow of the impure motive ; and impure motives lend their aid to a facile success. He is a little of the religious spellbinder, the Reverend Billy Sunday of his time, the flesh-creeper, the sorcerer of emotional orgy. We emphasize this aspect to the point of the grotesque. Donne had a trained mind; but without belittling the intensity or the profundity of his experience, we can suggest that this experience was not perfectly controlled, and that he lacked spiritual d
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― For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern
― For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern
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