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... Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with Hazlitt , the Shel-- ley of the letters and Charles Lamb at his best , it lost it again with De Quincey , Carlyle , Meredith and Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style ...
... Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with Hazlitt , the Shel-- ley of the letters and Charles Lamb at his best , it lost it again with De Quincey , Carlyle , Meredith and Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style ...
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... Dr Johnson , who were the victims of bad theories . I can read every word that Dr Johnson wrote with delight , for he had good sense , charm and wit . No one could have written better if he had not wilfully set himself to write in the ...
... Dr Johnson , who were the victims of bad theories . I can read every word that Dr Johnson wrote with delight , for he had good sense , charm and wit . No one could have written better if he had not wilfully set himself to write in the ...
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... Dr Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from eigh- teen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the ...
... Dr Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from eigh- teen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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