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... thing . His diffuseness is one of his glories . That so little ma- terial as appears to be employed in The Triumph of Time should release such an amazing number of words , requires what there is no reason to call anything but genius ...
... thing . His diffuseness is one of his glories . That so little ma- terial as appears to be employed in The Triumph of Time should release such an amazing number of words , requires what there is no reason to call anything but genius ...
Page 348
... thing we read . The fact that what we read does not concern merely some- thing called our literary taste , but that it affects directly , though only amongst many other influences , the whole of what we are , is best elicited , I think ...
... thing we read . The fact that what we read does not concern merely some- thing called our literary taste , but that it affects directly , though only amongst many other influences , the whole of what we are , is best elicited , I think ...
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... things , Pater is not really uttering anything more sub- versive than the following words of Arnold : " Culture , disinterestedly seeking in its aim at perfection to see things as they really are , shows us how worthy and divine a thing ...
... things , Pater is not really uttering anything more sub- versive than the following words of Arnold : " Culture , disinterestedly seeking in its aim at perfection to see things as they really are , shows us how worthy and divine a thing ...
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