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... emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
... emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
Page 90
... emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter , are part of the action of the play . It creates it in the ... emotional ; but it instinctively resents having its emotions stirred and is always ready to escape with a 90 THE SUMMING UP.
... emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter , are part of the action of the play . It creates it in the ... emotional ; but it instinctively resents having its emotions stirred and is always ready to escape with a 90 THE SUMMING UP.
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... emotion . It is only association that can explain the aesthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has ... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the asthetic emotion a ...
... emotion . It is only association that can explain the aesthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has ... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the asthetic emotion a ...
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