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Hazlitt can be unduly rhetorical : and sometimes his decoration is as fussy as Victorian Gothic . Newman can be a trifle flowery . But at their best both are admirable . Time has little touched their style ; it is almost ...
Hazlitt can be unduly rhetorical : and sometimes his decoration is as fussy as Victorian Gothic . Newman can be a trifle flowery . But at their best both are admirable . Time has little touched their style ; it is almost ...
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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 .
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 .
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Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval ...
Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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