La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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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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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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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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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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"Like La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and he does not want to be found in future ages alone and palely loitering in the middle of sedge and things."
From The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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