La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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His composition was a setting of Keats's famous tragic ballad La Belle Dame Sans Merci for a unique combination of instruments.
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Burne-Jones' girls have often been ridiculed for their insipid and standardized look, but they have a way of breaking out into an obsessional character--as La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
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Her college yearbook thumbnailed her as "a unique blend of La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
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Henry Brocken rides upon Rosinante into a strange dream country wherein he meets such familiar characters as Lemuel Gulliver, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Jane Eyre.
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"La Belle Dame Sans Merci," by Stanford, is an excellent piece of work.
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