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[284] From the _Ode to a Grecian Urn_.
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[285] That is, _Dedication_.
[286] From the _Ode to a Nightingale_.
[287] _Ibid._
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[288] Virgil, _Eclogues_, VII, 45.
[289] _Ibid._, II, 47-48: "Plucking pale violets and the tallest
poppies, she joins with them the narcissus and the flower of the
fragrant dill."
[290] _Ibid._, II, 51-52: "I will gather quinces, white with delicate
down, and chestnuts."
[291] _Midsummer Night's Dream_, II, i, 249-52.
[292] _Merchant of Venice_, V, i, 58-59.
[293] _Midsummer Night's Dream_, II, i, 83-85.
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[294] _Merchant of Venice_, V, i, 1 ff.
GEORGE SAND
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[295] Reprinted from the _Fortnightly Review_ for June, 1877, in _Mixed
Essays_, Smith, Elder & Co., 1879. ~Amandine Lucile Aurore Dudevant~,
nee ~Dupin~ (1804-76), was the most prolific woman writer of France. The
pseudonym ~George Sand~ was a combination of George, the typical
Berrichon name, and Sand, abbreviated from (Jules) Sandeau, in
collaboration with whom she began her literary career.
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