The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... idea of how exact and self - exacting it will make you . And this leads me to say a few words on the pastime of writing , as a most agreeable and detaching branch of the Art which we are discussing . The fault of the present generation ...
... idea of how exact and self - exacting it will make you . And this leads me to say a few words on the pastime of writing , as a most agreeable and detaching branch of the Art which we are discussing . The fault of the present generation ...
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... idea necessarily finds its expression in beautiful language : ' The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of innumerable bees . ' That is not something that could have been said in twenty different ways . It could not have been ...
... idea necessarily finds its expression in beautiful language : ' The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of innumerable bees . ' That is not something that could have been said in twenty different ways . It could not have been ...
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... idea , but rather strive to conceal the absence of any original poetical idea at all : for as I contend , a truly poetical idea could not possibly issue in such glittering frippery . And contrast this stuff with the poetry of Lucretius ...
... idea , but rather strive to conceal the absence of any original poetical idea at all : for as I contend , a truly poetical idea could not possibly issue in such glittering frippery . And contrast this stuff with the poetry of Lucretius ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
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