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I had little gift of metaphor ; the original and striking simile seldom occurred to me . Poetic flights and the great imaginative sweep were beyond my powers . I could admire them in others as I could admire their farfetched [ 29 ] THE ...
I had little gift of metaphor ; the original and striking simile seldom occurred to me . Poetic flights and the great imaginative sweep were beyond my powers . I could admire them in others as I could admire their farfetched [ 29 ] THE ...
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admire them in others as I could admire their farfetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive language in which they clothed their thoughts , but my own invention never presented me with such embellishments ; and I was tired of trying ...
admire them in others as I could admire their farfetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive language in which they clothed their thoughts , but my own invention never presented me with such embellishments ; and I was tired of trying ...
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a admire if you would be a person of culture and not a British philistine were Walter Pater and George Meredith . I was very ready to do what I was told to achieve this desirable end and incredible as it must seem I read The Shaving of ...
a admire if you would be a person of culture and not a British philistine were Walter Pater and George Meredith . I was very ready to do what I was told to achieve this desirable end and incredible as it must seem I read The Shaving of ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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