Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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... words , I said with a glance to the open book , " I see I am interrupting you , " and was about to pass on , but , " I prefer , " Soames replied in his toneless voice , " to be interrupted , " and I obeyed his gesture that I should sit ...
... words , I said with a glance to the open book , " I see I am interrupting you , " and was about to pass on , but , " I prefer , " Soames replied in his toneless voice , " to be interrupted , " and I obeyed his gesture that I should sit ...
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... words aloud ( a device which I commend to my reader ) I was able to master them little by little . The clearer they became , the greater was my bewilderment , my distress and horror . The whole thing was a night- mare . Afar , the great ...
... words aloud ( a device which I commend to my reader ) I was able to master them little by little . The clearer they became , the greater was my bewilderment , my distress and horror . The whole thing was a night- mare . Afar , the great ...
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... words in a tone of intense scorn . " In life and in art , " he said , " all that matters is an inevitable ending . " " But , " I urged more hopefully than I felt , " an ending that can be avoided is n't inevitable . " " You are n't an ...
... words in a tone of intense scorn . " In life and in art , " he said , " all that matters is an inevitable ending . " " But , " I urged more hopefully than I felt , " an ending that can be avoided is n't inevitable . " " You are n't an ...
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... words he is going to write , is not going to grasp the obvious corollary that I have invented nothing ? The answer can be only this : Nupton will not have read the later pas- sages of this memoir . Such lack of thor- oughness is a ...
... words he is going to write , is not going to grasp the obvious corollary that I have invented nothing ? The answer can be only this : Nupton will not have read the later pas- sages of this memoir . Such lack of thor- oughness is a ...
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... words can utter . Here , in a moving and striking fashion , we come into touch with the sang - froid of the French temperament , the matter- of - fact , rational , and steady look of the French intelligence at things which meets the ...
... words can utter . Here , in a moving and striking fashion , we come into touch with the sang - froid of the French temperament , the matter- of - fact , rational , and steady look of the French intelligence at things which meets the ...
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