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I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
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In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient 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 ...
In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient 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 ...
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the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the ...
the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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