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Page 37
... present , always at the cutting edge of the char- acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ; through the letters of the other characters we see him as ...
... present , always at the cutting edge of the char- acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ; through the letters of the other characters we see him as ...
Page 92
... present and the past . Then , with the begin- ning of the eighteenth century , the past , the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of human achievement moderns might possibly equal but could never expect to surpass ...
... present and the past . Then , with the begin- ning of the eighteenth century , the past , the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of human achievement moderns might possibly equal but could never expect to surpass ...
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... present ideas of what constitutes good style . At its worst , it is rebarbatively Teutonic and vulgar , and at its best , except when it fuses into poetry , it is too brilliant , fatiguing because of excess of epigram and metaphor ; it ...
... present ideas of what constitutes good style . At its worst , it is rebarbatively Teutonic and vulgar , and at its best , except when it fuses into poetry , it is too brilliant , fatiguing because of excess of epigram and metaphor ; it ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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