“Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade.”
Source: Hymn (1730), line 25.
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To Call Up the Shades http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=17&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)
“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.
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