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... sense of story - it is one of the century's greatest philosophic - poetic texts ) which he began to write after he eloped with Frieda Weekley in 1912 , and the second half of which did not get published until 1920. In the writing it ...
... sense of story - it is one of the century's greatest philosophic - poetic texts ) which he began to write after he eloped with Frieda Weekley in 1912 , and the second half of which did not get published until 1920. In the writing it ...
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... sense of period ' and thus putting his finger on the meaning of ' culture ' , as the English use the term . I do not really know how genuine or valuable this sense of period is . It is a product of the English public school and ...
... sense of period ' and thus putting his finger on the meaning of ' culture ' , as the English use the term . I do not really know how genuine or valuable this sense of period is . It is a product of the English public school and ...
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... sense of the past , in a continuous series of clear and pretty tableaux vivants . This Sense of the Past lies at the back of most intelligent conversation and of the more respectable and worse- paid genre of weekly journalism . Those ...
... sense of the past , in a continuous series of clear and pretty tableaux vivants . This Sense of the Past lies at the back of most intelligent conversation and of the more respectable and worse- paid genre of weekly journalism . Those ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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