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... ideas , but in persons . There are some rare spirits that have imparted them- selves to their words . The book then becomes a person , and reading comes to be a kind of con- versation . The reader is not passive , as if he were ...
... ideas , but in persons . There are some rare spirits that have imparted them- selves to their words . The book then becomes a person , and reading comes to be a kind of con- versation . The reader is not passive , as if he were ...
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... idea . Or if you tired of the Academy , there were the Per- ipatetics , gentlemen who were drawn together because they imagined they could think better on their legs ; or there were the Stoics , elderly per sons who liked to sit on the ...
... idea . Or if you tired of the Academy , there were the Per- ipatetics , gentlemen who were drawn together because they imagined they could think better on their legs ; or there were the Stoics , elderly per sons who liked to sit on the ...
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... idea who Purley was , but my heart went out to him at once . " Poor Purley ! " I said . " If these were your diversions , what a dog's life you must have led ! " I could see Purley gazing vaguely through his spectacles as he said ...
... idea who Purley was , but my heart went out to him at once . " Poor Purley ! " I said . " If these were your diversions , what a dog's life you must have led ! " I could see Purley gazing vaguely through his spectacles as he said ...
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... idea or to describe a fact , but to voice a mood . The mood may be the mood of a very simple person , the mood of a shepherd watch- ing his flocks , or of a peasant in the fields ; or , on the other hand , it may be the mood of a phi ...
... idea or to describe a fact , but to voice a mood . The mood may be the mood of a very simple person , the mood of a shepherd watch- ing his flocks , or of a peasant in the fields ; or , on the other hand , it may be the mood of a phi ...
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Samuel McChord Crothers. a great deal happier ; although I have not the slightest idea where Xanadu was , and only the vaguest notion of Kubla Khan . There are poems whose charm lies in their illusiveness . Fancy any one trying to ...
Samuel McChord Crothers. a great deal happier ; although I have not the slightest idea where Xanadu was , and only the vaguest notion of Kubla Khan . There are poems whose charm lies in their illusiveness . Fancy any one trying to ...
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