Essays by Divers Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Band 20 |
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... George should be identified with the Greek hero . The old Byzantine biographies of St. George give at the end a poem , under the title of ' St. George's Hymn , ' which is in fact nothing but a story very similar to Perseus and Andromeda ...
... George should be identified with the Greek hero . The old Byzantine biographies of St. George give at the end a poem , under the title of ' St. George's Hymn , ' which is in fact nothing but a story very similar to Perseus and Andromeda ...
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... George ; but instead of the dragon there is a man , a crowned leader , who is pierced by the spear . Then , as both St. George and St. Demetrius in a way personify the struggle with and triumph over evil , they often appear on church ...
... George ; but instead of the dragon there is a man , a crowned leader , who is pierced by the spear . Then , as both St. George and St. Demetrius in a way personify the struggle with and triumph over evil , they often appear on church ...
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... George Hamilton recently declared , is not in nature , though nature herself may awaken its impulse . It is in human nature , and in the soul of man . " Sir , " said Dr. Johnson once , and like such realists as Swift and Defoe , he was ...
... George Hamilton recently declared , is not in nature , though nature herself may awaken its impulse . It is in human nature , and in the soul of man . " Sir , " said Dr. Johnson once , and like such realists as Swift and Defoe , he was ...
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