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... imagination as he has put it down on paper , and we mean further that this realm , fictitious though it is , is yet some- how a self - contained entity consistent in itself and con- forming to the psychological laws which govern its ...
... imagination as he has put it down on paper , and we mean further that this realm , fictitious though it is , is yet some- how a self - contained entity consistent in itself and con- forming to the psychological laws which govern its ...
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... imagination was , it was always applied to the world outside it , and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas , the ideas of greatness and nobility , kingship , ancient families , and youth . The young men who composed the Young ...
... imagination was , it was always applied to the world outside it , and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas , the ideas of greatness and nobility , kingship , ancient families , and youth . The young men who composed the Young ...
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... imagination and the sheer creative high spirits will probably keep The First Men in the Moon and the best of Wells's other scientific romances read for many years to come . Wells's comic novels , Love and Mr. Lewisham ( 1900 ) , Kipps ...
... imagination and the sheer creative high spirits will probably keep The First Men in the Moon and the best of Wells's other scientific romances read for many years to come . Wells's comic novels , Love and Mr. Lewisham ( 1900 ) , Kipps ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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