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... hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by ...
... hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by ...
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... hands on . 22 I LIVED AT THIS time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
... hands on . 22 I LIVED AT THIS time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
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... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half - a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half - a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
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