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... expression for a confused idea . This is due largely to the fact that many writers think , not before , but as they write . The pen originates the thought . The disadvantage of this , and indeed it is a danger against which the author ...
... expression for a confused idea . This is due largely to the fact that many writers think , not before , but as they write . The pen originates the thought . The disadvantage of this , and indeed it is a danger against which the author ...
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... expression . He looked as one imagines a poet should look . As an old man , after a life of com- plete indolence , bald and emaciated , he had an ascetic air so that you might have taken him for a don who had spent long years in ardent ...
... expression . He looked as one imagines a poet should look . As an old man , after a life of com- plete indolence , bald and emaciated , he had an ascetic air so that you might have taken him for a don who had spent long years in ardent ...
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... expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course sufficiently sexual for the purpose of reproducing ...
... expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course sufficiently sexual for the purpose of reproducing ...
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