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Page 32
... sometimes and sometimes grave , a wood- land beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands . Here I think Matthew Arnold excels them . Both had a ...
... sometimes and sometimes grave , a wood- land beauty of phrase , dignity and mellowness . Both wrote with extreme lucidity . Neither is quite as simple as the purest taste demands . Here I think Matthew Arnold excels them . Both had a ...
Page 49
... Sometimes he fills you with horror ; sometimes he is en- tirely sympathetic ; but he has an inner coherence , so that . though you often shudder you accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his ...
... Sometimes he fills you with horror ; sometimes he is en- tirely sympathetic ; but he has an inner coherence , so that . though you often shudder you accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his ...
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... sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity . They do not care what their predecessors have done . They ...
... sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity . They do not care what their predecessors have done . They ...
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