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Page 21
... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
Page 165
... knowledge to write about his contemporaries . I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a ...
... knowledge to write about his contemporaries . I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a ...
Page 166
... knowledge of the world , and when , having for years explored the personalities of people around him , he has acquired an intuition into human nature that will enable him to understand and so to recreate the figures of a past age . I ...
... knowledge of the world , and when , having for years explored the personalities of people around him , he has acquired an intuition into human nature that will enable him to understand and so to recreate the figures of a past age . I ...
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