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... seem to commit the same offence . It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds : Which shackles accident , and ... seems truer in this case to say that the one metaphor grows imme- diately out of the other . It is as though the ...
... seem to commit the same offence . It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds : Which shackles accident , and ... seems truer in this case to say that the one metaphor grows imme- diately out of the other . It is as though the ...
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... seems either quixotic or otiose . It may be said , literature happens . That nowadays it does very little else is the gravamen com- mon to all serious criticism . This criticism is well aware that no possible legislation can control the ...
... seems either quixotic or otiose . It may be said , literature happens . That nowadays it does very little else is the gravamen com- mon to all serious criticism . This criticism is well aware that no possible legislation can control the ...
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... seems to be infinitely more actual and alive to - day than it was when it was published . Then , it had barely more than a ' succès d'estime ' . To - day Eckermann himself seems to deserve a centenary . For by the magic of reverence he ...
... seems to be infinitely more actual and alive to - day than it was when it was published . Then , it had barely more than a ' succès d'estime ' . To - day Eckermann himself seems to deserve a centenary . For by the magic of reverence he ...
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THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM | 1 |
POETRY AND PROSE ΙΟ | 10 |
STENDHAL | 25 |
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