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Newman had an exquisite grace , music , playful sometimes and sometimes grave , a woodland beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands .
Newman had an exquisite grace , music , playful sometimes and sometimes grave , a woodland beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands .
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Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
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It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed ...
It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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