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... gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and compose with a facility that aroused my envy . They had an appreciation of art and a critical instinct that I despaired of attaining . Of these some died ...
... gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and compose with a facility that aroused my envy . They had an appreciation of art and a critical instinct that I despaired of attaining . Of these some died ...
Page 76
... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English literature to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one would ...
... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English literature to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one would ...
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... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . a The writer stands outside the very action he ...
... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . a The writer stands outside the very action he ...
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