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Page 101
When the intelligentsia took up Russia I, remembering that Cato had begun to
learn Greek when he was eighty, set about learning Russian, but I had by then
lost my youthful enthusiasm; I never got farther than being able to read the plays
of ...
When the intelligentsia took up Russia I, remembering that Cato had begun to
learn Greek when he was eighty, set about learning Russian, but I had by then
lost my youthful enthusiasm; I never got farther than being able to read the plays
of ...
Page 122
I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of. It
cannot be learnt. It can exist without education or culture. It is a faculty that
enables the playwright so to put words that they carry across the footlights and to
tell ...
I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of. It
cannot be learnt. It can exist without education or culture. It is a faculty that
enables the playwright so to put words that they carry across the footlights and to
tell ...
Page 150
Few can but those who have themselves been actors. It is not enough to be able
to tell an actor that an intonation or a gesture is wrong, you must be able to show
him by word and deed what is right. This is more than ever necessary now that ...
Few can but those who have themselves been actors. It is not enough to be able
to tell an actor that an intonation or a gesture is wrong, you must be able to show
him by word and deed what is right. This is more than ever necessary now that ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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