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... critic is deservedly in- fluential and what he said in this article has been very generally repeated . In another moment of frankness I informed my readers that I was un- usually competent . One would think that except for this the critics ...
... critic is deservedly in- fluential and what he said in this article has been very generally repeated . In another moment of frankness I informed my readers that I was un- usually competent . One would think that except for this the critics ...
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... critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham Court Road , its mental capacity would stand about the letter O. How can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they ...
... critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham Court Road , its mental capacity would stand about the letter O. How can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they ...
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... critics clamour for them . Now , the critics are of necessity the worst judges of plays . For consider , the play ... critic is there not to feel but to judge . He must hold aloof from the contagion that has captured the group and ...
... critics clamour for them . Now , the critics are of necessity the worst judges of plays . For consider , the play ... critic is there not to feel but to judge . He must hold aloof from the contagion that has captured the group and ...
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