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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... sometimes and sometimes grave , a woodland 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 woodland 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 ...
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... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
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... sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed them ...
... sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has impressed our contemporaries , but to the mediocre ones whose ordinariness has allowed them ...
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