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... suppose he saw in it directness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an ...
... suppose he saw in it directness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an ...
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... suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and having seen it want to pass on to the next ; they catch the gist of a ...
... suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and having seen it want to pass on to the next ; they catch the gist of a ...
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... suppose , is why certain works whose beauty now seems manifest should , when first given to the world , have attracted no great attention . I have a notion that the odes of Keats are more beautiful than when he wrote them . They are ...
... suppose , is why certain works whose beauty now seems manifest should , when first given to the world , have attracted no great attention . I have a notion that the odes of Keats are more beautiful than when he wrote them . They are ...
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