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Page 148
... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the ro- mantic fervour of his young blood gave ...
... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the ro- mantic fervour of his young blood gave ...
Page 153
... young men now I cannot but see that theirs are vastly more accomplished . The ageing writer does well to keep in touch with what the young do and from time to time I read their novels . Girls still in their teens , youths at the ...
... young men now I cannot but see that theirs are vastly more accomplished . The ageing writer does well to keep in touch with what the young do and from time to time I read their novels . Girls still in their teens , youths at the ...
Page 253
... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the generation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and mothers ...
... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the generation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and mothers ...
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