The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... feeling ? A dark warning about the transience of beauty and the lure of food ? No , there is just a vivid unsettling ... feel- ings he was expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large element of pose : there is a sense ...
... feeling ? A dark warning about the transience of beauty and the lure of food ? No , there is just a vivid unsettling ... feel- ings he was expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large element of pose : there is a sense ...
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... feel in themselves , according to their own idiosyn- crasies , to an unknown poet , great statesman or ruling prince . The Olympian attitude of Goethe's later years inspires me with esteem ; this confession arouses in me a warmer feeling ...
... feel in themselves , according to their own idiosyn- crasies , to an unknown poet , great statesman or ruling prince . The Olympian attitude of Goethe's later years inspires me with esteem ; this confession arouses in me a warmer feeling ...
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... feel more aloof than when I am in the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of requited love . I know that this is the ...
... feel more aloof than when I am in the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of requited love . I know that this is the ...
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