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Page 117
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that they ...
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that they ...
Page 131
... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
Page 300
... excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its associations exalts you to mystic rapture . It does ; and these sides of it are just as much part and parcel of the ęsthetic emo- tion as ...
... excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its associations exalts you to mystic rapture . It does ; and these sides of it are just as much part and parcel of the ęsthetic emo- tion as ...
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