my grandmother gave me as a gift, "When I was ten, not a bicycle, not a baseball mitt or a bat, she gave me a framed engraving of the derringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate the president.

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Wimsatt right off the bat attacks what he calls "the Romantic understanding of literature."

文萨特从一开始就反对他成为,“浪漫解读文学“的方法“

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She's going to warm us up and we're going to get up and we're going to get into it here right off the bat in our exploration of duple and triple meter so here we go, Lynda Paul.

她来调动大家的情绪,然后我们站起来,我们将要亲身体会一下,什么是二拍子和三拍子,那开始吧,有请琳达·保罗

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