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... sensibility – can be gathered from the comments of contemporary readers and reviewers . They spoke of Wells's ' infinite tenderness for the ordinary ' , and of his ' genius for the commonplace ' , and said Wells manages to secure a very ...
... sensibility – can be gathered from the comments of contemporary readers and reviewers . They spoke of Wells's ' infinite tenderness for the ordinary ' , and of his ' genius for the commonplace ' , and said Wells manages to secure a very ...
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... sensibility , and that sensibility became dominant in poetry with Laforgue , in painting with Picasso and Braque , and in the other arts , at the end of the century . From France it spread to England , and in the 1920s the Commedia ...
... sensibility , and that sensibility became dominant in poetry with Laforgue , in painting with Picasso and Braque , and in the other arts , at the end of the century . From France it spread to England , and in the 1920s the Commedia ...
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... sensibility into a quasi- ideology . He combined a strong sense of period of the kind Waugh describes with the sensibility of a dandy , to use his own phrase . " The London I like best is the one I can find in books where it lies ...
... sensibility into a quasi- ideology . He combined a strong sense of period of the kind Waugh describes with the sensibility of a dandy , to use his own phrase . " The London I like best is the one I can find in books where it lies ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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