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Page 57
... criticism of her book even by the most negligible nitwit gave Virginia acute pain . It is therefore hardly an ... critic , friend , or acquaintance had said his say . And yet , despite her terrifying hypersensitivity , there was in ...
... criticism of her book even by the most negligible nitwit gave Virginia acute pain . It is therefore hardly an ... critic , friend , or acquaintance had said his say . And yet , despite her terrifying hypersensitivity , there was in ...
Page 132
... critic , he always had something of his own worth saying even about master- pieces buried long ago under mountains and monuments of criticism . But even in the ephemeral and debased form of criticism , reviewing , he was remarkable ...
... critic , he always had something of his own worth saying even about master- pieces buried long ago under mountains and monuments of criticism . But even in the ephemeral and debased form of criticism , reviewing , he was remarkable ...
Page 148
... critics and his public . Her hypersensitivity - the fact that criticism tortured her mind like the dentist's drill on an exposed nerve - has seemed to many of her posthumous critics extraordinary and highly discreditable . She herself ...
... critics and his public . Her hypersensitivity - the fact that criticism tortured her mind like the dentist's drill on an exposed nerve - has seemed to many of her posthumous critics extraordinary and highly discreditable . She herself ...
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