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... Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is more striking than the plain . Indeed many people think that a style that does not attract notice is not style . They will admire Walter Pater's , but will read an essay by Matthew ...
... Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is more striking than the plain . Indeed many people think that a style that does not attract notice is not style . They will admire Walter Pater's , but will read an essay by Matthew ...
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... Walter Pater whom I read at the same time and with a similar excitement . No pleasant associations give him for me a ... Pater's attitude towards the life about him , cloistered , faintly supercilious , gen- telmanly , donnish in short ...
... Walter Pater whom I read at the same time and with a similar excitement . No pleasant associations give him for me a ... Pater's attitude towards the life about him , cloistered , faintly supercilious , gen- telmanly , donnish in short ...
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... Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the interminable distance to sit for a while ...
... Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the interminable distance to sit for a while ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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