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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... spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr. Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with ...
... spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr. Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with ...
Page 206
... spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adventure . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only excitement was the books I ...
... spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adventure . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only excitement was the books I ...
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... spirit that are offered by the philoso- phers for the consideration of the plain man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's conception that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance ...
... spirit that are offered by the philoso- phers for the consideration of the plain man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's conception that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance ...
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