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... labour ; and both were written immediately after visits to the towns in which the scenes are laid , -Prague , mainly , and Nuremberg . Of course I had endeav- oured to change not only my manner of lan- guage , but my manner of story ...
... labour ; and both were written immediately after visits to the towns in which the scenes are laid , -Prague , mainly , and Nuremberg . Of course I had endeav- oured to change not only my manner of lan- guage , but my manner of story ...
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... labour in addition to the other labours of my life . Though the book might be charming , the work was very much the reverse . It came to have a terrible as- pect to me , as did that proposition that I should sit out all the May meetings ...
... labour in addition to the other labours of my life . Though the book might be charming , the work was very much the reverse . It came to have a terrible as- pect to me , as did that proposition that I should sit out all the May meetings ...
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... labour and of its nature , I felt myself at first to be much afflicted and then to be deeply grieved by the opinion expressed by wise and thinking men as to the work done by novelists . But when , by de- grees , I dared to examine and ...
... labour and of its nature , I felt myself at first to be much afflicted and then to be deeply grieved by the opinion expressed by wise and thinking men as to the work done by novelists . But when , by de- grees , I dared to examine and ...
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... at last become weary of that portion of a novelist's work which is of all the most essential to success . That a man as grows old should feel the labour of writing he THE WEARY NOVELIST . 47 He to be a fatigue 46 ON NOVELS , ETC.
... at last become weary of that portion of a novelist's work which is of all the most essential to success . That a man as grows old should feel the labour of writing he THE WEARY NOVELIST . 47 He to be a fatigue 46 ON NOVELS , ETC.
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... labour , even when the labour has been unconscious . Then there comes a time when he shuts his eyes and shuts his ears . When we talk of memory fading as age comes on , it is such shutting of eyes and ears that we mean . things around ...
... labour , even when the labour has been unconscious . Then there comes a time when he shuts his eyes and shuts his ears . When we talk of memory fading as age comes on , it is such shutting of eyes and ears that we mean . things around ...
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