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... admire them in others as I could admire their far - fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive lan- guage in which they clothed their thoughts but my own 31 THE SUMMING UP.
... admire them in others as I could admire their far - fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive lan- guage in which they clothed their thoughts but my own 31 THE SUMMING UP.
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... admiration was fictitious . I admired because it was the part of a cultured young man to admire . I intoxicated myself with my own en- thusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped . Now I know that there ...
... admiration was fictitious . I admired because it was the part of a cultured young man to admire . I intoxicated myself with my own en- thusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped . Now I know that there ...
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... admired everything that Ruskin told me to admire ( even that horrible tower of Giotto ) and turned away in disgust from what he condemned . Never can he have had a more ardent disciple . After that I went to Venice , Verona and Milan ...
... admired everything that Ruskin told me to admire ( even that horrible tower of Giotto ) and turned away in disgust from what he condemned . Never can he have had a more ardent disciple . After that I went to Venice , Verona and Milan ...
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