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... literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he amused himself with thinking what he would write when he really got down to it and for an- other twenty with what he ...
... literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he amused himself with thinking what he would write when he really got down to it and for an- other twenty with what he ...
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... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
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... literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursu- ing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He ...
... literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursu- ing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He ...
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