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But I suppose that if a man has a confused mind he will write in a confused way , if his temper is capricious his prose will be fantastical , and if he has a quick , darting intelligence that is reminded by the matter in hand of a ...
But I suppose that if a man has a confused mind he will write in a confused way , if his temper is capricious his prose will be fantastical , and if he has a quick , darting intelligence that is reminded by the matter in hand of a ...
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... Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to the emotional power of rhythmical speech . But more than that : verse forces on the matter a conventional form that heightens the æsthetic effect .
... Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to the emotional power of rhythmical speech . But more than that : verse forces on the matter a conventional form that heightens the æsthetic effect .
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... that it will matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the universe as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhabited the primæval earth .
... that it will matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the universe as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhabited the primæval earth .
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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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