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Page 34
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
Page 124
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
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... attention so that he does not perceive what violence has been done him . I am not writing a technical treatise on the novel , so I need not enumerate the various devices that novelists have used to achieve this . But how efficacious ...
... attention so that he does not perceive what violence has been done him . I am not writing a technical treatise on the novel , so I need not enumerate the various devices that novelists have used to achieve this . But how efficacious ...
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