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... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
Page 169
... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
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... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
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