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... phrase and sentences stiff with exotic epithets : the ideal was a brocade so heavy with gold that it stood up by itself . The intelligent young read Walter Pater with enthusiasm . My common sense suggested to me that it was anæmic stuff ...
... phrase and sentences stiff with exotic epithets : the ideal was a brocade so heavy with gold that it stood up by itself . The intelligent young read Walter Pater with enthusiasm . My common sense suggested to me that it was anæmic stuff ...
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... phrase . He was no slavish admirer of logic and was willing enough to give usage right of way through the exact ... phrase that was easy and unaffected to a phrase that was grammatical . One of the differences between French and English ...
... phrase . He was no slavish admirer of logic and was willing enough to give usage right of way through the exact ... phrase that was easy and unaffected to a phrase that was grammatical . One of the differences between French and English ...
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... phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of ... phrase and both knew how to write sentences pleasing to the eye . Both had an ear of extreme sensitiveness . If ...
... phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of ... phrase and both knew how to write sentences pleasing to the eye . Both had an ear of extreme sensitiveness . If ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe Bertrand Russell better character comedy common consciousness course critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feel fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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