Parsifal: A NovelIn this glittering, kaleidoscopic new novel Peter Vansittart recreated and projects in his own inimitable style the familiar story from Wagner’s opera in historical perspective. |
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... bards , slaves , old men , and those who with fine words and loud voices had shrunk from riding to battle . In her grief , a bard declaimed in cracked , fleeting tones , the sun was for her but a dreary mist , she forswore the world's ...
... bards , slaves , old men , and those who with fine words and loud voices had shrunk from riding to battle . In her grief , a bard declaimed in cracked , fleeting tones , the sun was for her but a dreary mist , she forswore the world's ...
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... bards enjoyed praising , graceful as the silks of the Other World , nor did his hair glisten as in a song of lovers , which the bards sang , sang perhaps too often , but he was tall and straight , and his eyes were full and blue , blue ...
... bards enjoyed praising , graceful as the silks of the Other World , nor did his hair glisten as in a song of lovers , which the bards sang , sang perhaps too often , but he was tall and straight , and his eyes were full and blue , blue ...
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... bards eagerly assembled . The foremost head had been filled with sly skills , so that something of these must now lie within the Bear Chief . Acclamations echoed through the caves . The Chief's sword had flashed lightning , a crow had ...
... bards eagerly assembled . The foremost head had been filled with sly skills , so that something of these must now lie within the Bear Chief . Acclamations echoed through the caves . The Chief's sword had flashed lightning , a crow had ...
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