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... turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that ... turns of phrase or highflown images . It is a civilized prose , natural , discreet а and pointed . There is no attempt ...
... turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that ... turns of phrase or highflown images . It is a civilized prose , natural , discreet а and pointed . There is no attempt ...
Page 73
... turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) ...
... turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) ...
Page 77
... turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be hard to live always with Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel , but anyone could do with one of Constable's pictures of Salisbury Cathedral . My sympathies are limited ...
... turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be hard to live always with Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel , but anyone could do with one of Constable's pictures of Salisbury Cathedral . My sympathies are limited ...
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