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...dreamed there was an Emperor Antony," Shakespeare's Cleopatra soliloquizes after his death. "His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres. Think you there was, or might be, such a man as this I dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE MEANING OF NOSTALGIA | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

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