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Page 74
... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
Page 91
... youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude that I was wrong . I did not know how often critics accept the conventional view and it never occurred to me ...
... youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude that I was wrong . I did not know how often critics accept the conventional view and it never occurred to me ...
Page 291
... youth shirked because they would take too long . In old age the taste improves and it is possible to enjoy art and literature without the personal bias that in youth warps the judgment . It has the satis- faction of its own fulfilment ...
... youth shirked because they would take too long . In old age the taste improves and it is possible to enjoy art and literature without the personal bias that in youth warps the judgment . It has the satis- faction of its own fulfilment ...
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