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One of the most curious things that has forced itself on my notice is that there is
no permanence in the judgment of beauty. The museums are full of objects which
the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us ...
One of the most curious things that has forced itself on my notice is that there is
no permanence in the judgment of beauty. The museums are full of objects which
the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us ...
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know that anyone has studied the effect of time on the creation of beauty. It is not
only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better; it is rather
that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to their beauty.
know that anyone has studied the effect of time on the creation of beauty. It is not
only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better; it is rather
that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to their beauty.
Page 303
If beauty is one of the great values of life, then it seems hard to believe that the
aesthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only
of a class. It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility that is shared but
by ...
If beauty is one of the great values of life, then it seems hard to believe that the
aesthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only
of a class. It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility that is shared but
by ...
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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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