The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... Genius , back to that very world . which I have despised : a world which has Allah for its contriver is much more wisely formed than that which has been pro- jected by Mahomet [ this is the origin of the viceless world— it is made by ...
... Genius , back to that very world . which I have despised : a world which has Allah for its contriver is much more wisely formed than that which has been pro- jected by Mahomet [ this is the origin of the viceless world— it is made by ...
Page 231
... genius of common sense could have been so uniformly right as he . Taste alone will not do , for taste is apt to have a bias - Lamb's certainly had for the quaint and the antique . But good sense makes him sub- stantially right even ...
... genius of common sense could have been so uniformly right as he . Taste alone will not do , for taste is apt to have a bias - Lamb's certainly had for the quaint and the antique . But good sense makes him sub- stantially right even ...
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... genius suggested , not the carelessness and slovenly writing which mar many a page . He himself , with a far lower grade of native genius and a less catholic humanity , was an incom- parably more conscientious craftsman . What he writes ...
... genius suggested , not the carelessness and slovenly writing which mar many a page . He himself , with a far lower grade of native genius and a less catholic humanity , was an incom- parably more conscientious craftsman . What he writes ...
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