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Page 57
... charming laughter and glittering delight . This being so , it is as futile for the comic writer to pretend that he is , in reality , a moralist in disguise , as it is for the moralist to blame the comic writer for ignoring morality ...
... charming laughter and glittering delight . This being so , it is as futile for the comic writer to pretend that he is , in reality , a moralist in disguise , as it is for the moralist to blame the comic writer for ignoring morality ...
Page 103
... charming sentence - ' On ne sait si on l'aime ou si on l'admire ' has been wantonly omitted ; and into the very midst of the exquisite crescendo of the ' fleuristes ' the hideous phrase ' tired with his perambulations ' has been ...
... charming sentence - ' On ne sait si on l'aime ou si on l'admire ' has been wantonly omitted ; and into the very midst of the exquisite crescendo of the ' fleuristes ' the hideous phrase ' tired with his perambulations ' has been ...
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... charming ingenuous- ness , ' in this particular , as in any other particular , I may be wrong . ' One of the surest signs of a man's taste being shaky is his trying to prop it up by artificial supports . Matthew Arnold was always doing ...
... charming ingenuous- ness , ' in this particular , as in any other particular , I may be wrong . ' One of the surest signs of a man's taste being shaky is his trying to prop it up by artificial supports . Matthew Arnold was always doing ...
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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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