The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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William Somerset Maugham. adrnire 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 invention never presented me with such embel ...
William Somerset Maugham. adrnire 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 invention never presented me with such embel ...
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... admire richness in others , though I find it difficult to digest in quantity . I can read one page of Ruskin with delight , but twenty only with weariness . The rolling period , the stately epithet , the noun rich in poetic associations ...
... admire richness in others , though I find it difficult to digest in quantity . I can read one page of Ruskin with delight , but twenty only with weariness . The rolling period , the stately epithet , the noun rich in poetic associations ...
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... admire . I intoxicated myself with my own enthusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped . Now I know that there is a great deal of fustian in these novels . But the strange thing is that , reading them ...
... admire . I intoxicated myself with my own enthusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped . Now I know that there is a great deal of fustian in these novels . But the strange thing is that , reading them ...
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