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  • The book of Job seems to me the most daring of poems: from a position of the most vantageless realism, it assaults the very citadel of the ideal!

    Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

  • The book of Job seems to me the most daring of poems: from a position of the most vantageless realism, it assaults the very citadel of the ideal!

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

  • All vantageless, etc. Scott says: “The duellists of former times did not always stand upon those punctilios respecting equality of arms, which are not judged essential to fair combat.

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • All vantageless, etc. Scott says: "The duellists of former times did not always stand upon those punctilios respecting equality of arms, which are not judged essential to fair combat.

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

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