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... truth to life ; and for an impartial index as to whether the book is true to life , he would accept the opinion of generations of men . No book entirely bad can , he thinks , become famous ; unless men could recognize in it some ...
... truth to life ; and for an impartial index as to whether the book is true to life , he would accept the opinion of generations of men . No book entirely bad can , he thinks , become famous ; unless men could recognize in it some ...
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... truth that was in his heart thousands of years ago . Very an- ciently also there was a Greek story - teller who wrote a little story about a boy and girl in the country called " Daphnis and Chloe . " It was a little story , telling in ...
... truth that was in his heart thousands of years ago . Very an- ciently also there was a Greek story - teller who wrote a little story about a boy and girl in the country called " Daphnis and Chloe . " It was a little story , telling in ...
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... truths and social philosophy could be better taught through little fairy - tales and child stories than in almost any ... truth behind the fable . You will understand now exactly what I mean by a great book . What about the choice of ...
... truths and social philosophy could be better taught through little fairy - tales and child stories than in almost any ... truth behind the fable . You will understand now exactly what I mean by a great book . What about the choice of ...
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... truth in that statement , notwithstanding some apparent exceptions . You have doubtless read that many European poets were bad men . But you must take such statements with a great deal of reserve and qualifica- tion . I imagine , for ...
... truth in that statement , notwithstanding some apparent exceptions . You have doubtless read that many European poets were bad men . But you must take such statements with a great deal of reserve and qualifica- tion . I imagine , for ...
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... truth of this whole matter is simply that a poet must be born a poet - as the English proverb says , " A poet is born , not made . " No amount of education will make a man a poet . Every year in England two great universities turn out ...
... truth of this whole matter is simply that a poet must be born a poet - as the English proverb says , " A poet is born , not made . " No amount of education will make a man a poet . Every year in England two great universities turn out ...
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