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Newman had an exquisite grace , music , playful sometimes and sometimes grave , a woodland beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands .
Newman had an exquisite grace , music , playful sometimes and sometimes grave , a woodland beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands .
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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 .
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 .
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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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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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