Roger Fry: A BiographyVirginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations. |
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Page 21
... seemed no danger of sud- denly finding oneself guilty of moral obliquity which at other times seemed suddenly to be one's situation without knowing exactly why or how it occurred , for the moral code was terribly complicated and one ...
... seemed no danger of sud- denly finding oneself guilty of moral obliquity which at other times seemed suddenly to be one's situation without knowing exactly why or how it occurred , for the moral code was terribly complicated and one ...
Page 207
... seemed very intelligent . " But there was no comfort to be found in the public world : “ . . . it seems as though nothing would break the evil spell and as though we should drift on forever into an utter decline of civilisation . I ...
... seemed very intelligent . " But there was no comfort to be found in the public world : “ . . . it seems as though nothing would break the evil spell and as though we should drift on forever into an utter decline of civilisation . I ...
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... seemed to escape his insatiable curi- osity ; and that was himself . Analysis seemed to stop short there . Perhaps human nature , until we have more know- ledge of psychology , is inexplicable ; we are only beginning , he would insist ...
... seemed to escape his insatiable curi- osity ; and that was himself . Analysis seemed to stop short there . Perhaps human nature , until we have more know- ledge of psychology , is inexplicable ; we are only beginning , he would insist ...
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