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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance
The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.
It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.
It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.
It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.
Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.
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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.
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It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.
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It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.
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It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.
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Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

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Worthy adjective US /ˈwɜːr.ði/

Having or showing the qualities or abilities that merit recognition in character or magic.

From this reading “It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.”

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A

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

allows

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

amid

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

and

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

artists

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

As

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

aspect

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

be

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

began

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

by

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

carried

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

carrying

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

century

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

change

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

chaos

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

character

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

coach

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

country

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

CRIED

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

downs

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

encamp

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

England

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

entrapped

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

exhibited

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

extinct

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

finds

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

for

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

from

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

furziness

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

gaping-ground

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

genius

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

gentleman's

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

GREAT

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

has

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

have

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

heathiness

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

Heine

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

hollows

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

hotel

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

humbly

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

I

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

if

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

ignoble

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

imagined

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

IN

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

indeed

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

IS

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

It

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

its

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

itself

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

Like

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

lion

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

luggage

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

melodrama

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

melodramatic

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

menagerie

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

might

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

more

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

my

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

NAME

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

nineteenth

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

no

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

occupation

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

OF

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

on

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

once

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

OUT

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

pack

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

painted

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

Pan

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

parks

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

picnic-parties

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

PLACE

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

POET

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

point

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

savage

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

scene

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

semi-pastoral

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

shouldered

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

side

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

smug

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

SOLITARY

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

somewhat

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

suffers

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

survival

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

teetotal

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

THE

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

to

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

took

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

tourist

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

use

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From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

vacuous

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From this reading It finds ignoble occupation as a gaping-ground for the vacuous tourist,--somewhat as Heine might have imagined Pan carrying the gentleman's luggage from the coach to the hotel.

was

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

way

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

well-rolled

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From this reading Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.

went

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

WHICH

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

wildness

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From this reading IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE As I once more shouldered my pack and went my way, the character of the country side began to change, and, from a semi-pastoral heathiness and furziness, took on a wildness of aspect, which if indeed melodramatic was melodrama carried to the point of genius.

worst

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From this reading It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.

worthyadjectiveUS /ˈwɜːr.ði/

Having or showing the qualities or abilities that merit recognition in character or magic.

From this reading It was a scene for which the nineteenth century has no worthy use.

Chapter 14 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne holds 129 sentences, grouped into 26 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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