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... Sometimes he fills you with horror ; sometimes he is entirely sympathetic ; but he has an inner coherence , so that though you often shudder you accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his ...
... Sometimes he fills you with horror ; sometimes he is entirely sympathetic ; but he has an inner coherence , so that though you often shudder you accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his ...
Page 228
... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a lobster ...
... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a lobster ...
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... sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed them ...
... sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed them ...
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