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Page 76
... appears ; but it appears only like the shadowings of painture , which , being to cause the round- ing of it , cannot be absent ; but while that is considered , they ! are lost : so while we attend to the other 76 RACINE.
... appears ; but it appears only like the shadowings of painture , which , being to cause the round- ing of it , cannot be absent ; but while that is considered , they ! are lost : so while we attend to the other 76 RACINE.
Page 104
... appears in Miss Lee's selections , which are confined almost entirely to those ' portraits of the more or less trifling eccentricities of men , ' which give no true im- pression of the width and profundity of La Bruyère's mind . He was ...
... appears in Miss Lee's selections , which are confined almost entirely to those ' portraits of the more or less trifling eccentricities of men , ' which give no true im- pression of the width and profundity of La Bruyère's mind . He was ...
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... appears to be simply based upon the common selfishness of an egotist . But in reality it was something more significant than that . The ' chasse au bonheur ' which Beyle was always advocating was no respectable epicureanism ; it had ...
... appears to be simply based upon the common selfishness of an egotist . But in reality it was something more significant than that . The ' chasse au bonheur ' which Beyle was always advocating was no respectable epicureanism ; it had ...
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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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