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William Somerset Maugham. to time the spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English ...
William Somerset Maugham. to time the spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English ...
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... spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a ...
... spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a ...
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William Somerset Maugham. and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain man that ... spirit in the likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is jungle and jungle ...
William Somerset Maugham. and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain man that ... spirit in the likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is jungle and jungle ...
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