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Page 74
... verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young ... verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point I want to make is that ...
... verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young ... verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point I want to make is that ...
Page 140
... verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is ...
... verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is ...
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... verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ited the primæval earth . I must ask myself then what difference all this makes to me and how I am to deal with these cir ...
... verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ited the primæval earth . I must ask myself then what difference all this makes to me and how I am to deal with these cir ...
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