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... course of his Confessions narrates incidents that have pro- foundly shocked the sensibility of mankind . By describing them so frankly he falsified his values and so gave them in his book a greater importance than they had in his life ...
... course of his Confessions narrates incidents that have pro- foundly shocked the sensibility of mankind . By describing them so frankly he falsified his values and so gave them in his book a greater importance than they had in his life ...
Page 125
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , what- ever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , what- ever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
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... course I had mapped out for myself , and trying with my works to fill out the pattern I looked for . I think authors are unwise who do not read criticisms . It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by ...
... course I had mapped out for myself , and trying with my works to fill out the pattern I looked for . I think authors are unwise who do not read criticisms . It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by ...
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