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... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked for- ward to , my imagination in the very moment of ful- filment has been busy with the ...
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked for- ward to , my imagination in the very moment of ful- filment has been busy with the ...
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... Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without hav- ing to think how to describe ...
... Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without hav- ing to think how to describe ...
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... contributions were . For all their parade these writers were no more than an eddy in a backwater and it is unlikely that the history of English literature will give them more than a passing [ 171 ] THE SUMMING UP xlv ...
... contributions were . For all their parade these writers were no more than an eddy in a backwater and it is unlikely that the history of English literature will give them more than a passing [ 171 ] THE SUMMING UP xlv ...
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