The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 36
... perhaps a native lack of precision in thought , perhaps a naļve delight in fine words for their own sake , an innate eccentricity and love of embroidery , I do not know ; but the fact remains that ever since , English prose has had to ...
... perhaps a native lack of precision in thought , perhaps a naļve delight in fine words for their own sake , an innate eccentricity and love of embroidery , I do not know ; but the fact remains that ever since , English prose has had to ...
Page 189
... perhaps a pardonable one . For the artist should be indifferent to praise and blame , since he is concerned with his work only in its relation to himself , and how it affects the public is a matter in which he is materially perhaps ...
... perhaps a pardonable one . For the artist should be indifferent to praise and blame , since he is concerned with his work only in its relation to himself , and how it affects the public is a matter in which he is materially perhaps ...
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... perhaps it is not an illusion that our wills are free . The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into existence . There has been ...
... perhaps it is not an illusion that our wills are free . The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into existence . There has been ...
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