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Page 65
... hard put to it to resist the temptation of inappositely using his special knowl- edge . The novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is ...
... hard put to it to resist the temptation of inappositely using his special knowl- edge . The novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is ...
Page 70
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had writen a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had writen a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
Page 149
... hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress , was tried and guil- lotined . But Stendhal put into Julien Sorel , his hero , not only a great ...
... hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress , was tried and guil- lotined . But Stendhal put into Julien Sorel , his hero , not only a great ...
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