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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 ...
... 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 ...
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 the other harmony of prose , and we see the writers of prose trying to force on it the rhythms of verse . Someone is badly wanted to define once more the characters peculiar to the sev- eral arts and to point out to those who go ...
... verse the other harmony of prose , and we see the writers of prose trying to force on it the rhythms of verse . Someone is badly wanted to define once more the characters peculiar to the sev- eral arts and to point out to those who go ...
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