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Page 194
... plays , but for his phrase : " the long arm of coincidence " . That may well last as long as the language . He was a little man , shrivelled in his dapper clothes , who reminded you somehow of a dead leaf ; and like a dead leaf he used ...
... plays , but for his phrase : " the long arm of coincidence " . That may well last as long as the language . He was a little man , shrivelled in his dapper clothes , who reminded you somehow of a dead leaf ; and like a dead leaf he used ...
Page 195
... plays ; but it exasperated him to have his best play , The Tyranny of Tears , ascribed to Oscar Wilde . For my part I cannot imagine how such a notion could ever have been as widely spread as it certainly was . No one could have had it ...
... plays ; but it exasperated him to have his best play , The Tyranny of Tears , ascribed to Oscar Wilde . For my part I cannot imagine how such a notion could ever have been as widely spread as it certainly was . No one could have had it ...
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... plays is so weak as to destroy the illusion . Why should the critics say that he didn't care ? I should have said that there was evidence that he did . Why should he have put into Othello's mouth those lines beginning That handkerchief ...
... plays is so weak as to destroy the illusion . Why should the critics say that he didn't care ? I should have said that there was evidence that he did . Why should he have put into Othello's mouth those lines beginning That handkerchief ...
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