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A long and calm ex- perience of life seems , indeed , to be the background from which his most amazing sentences ... His art matured with himself ; and who but the most expert of artists could have produced this perfect sentence in The ...
A long and calm ex- perience of life seems , indeed , to be the background from which his most amazing sentences ... His art matured with himself ; and who but the most expert of artists could have produced this perfect sentence in The ...
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The style of Vauvenargues is so simple , following , like all eighteenth - century French , almost the precise run of an English sentence , that nothing more was needed than care and a small knowledge of the two languages to have ...
The style of Vauvenargues is so simple , following , like all eighteenth - century French , almost the precise run of an English sentence , that nothing more was needed than care and a small knowledge of the two languages to have ...
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... friend what she feels towards Dorriforth , ' I love him with all the passion of a mistress , and with all the tenderness of a wife . ' No young lady , even in the eighteenth century , ever gave utterance to such a sentence as that .
... friend what she feels towards Dorriforth , ' I love him with all the passion of a mistress , and with all the tenderness of a wife . ' No young lady , even in the eighteenth century , ever gave utterance to such a sentence as that .
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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