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... look at faces and motions , roads and inns , a citizen taking his walk , a workman drinking . Our great care should be to supply as much as possible the want of present , personal , direct , and sensible observation which we can no ...
... look at faces and motions , roads and inns , a citizen taking his walk , a workman drinking . Our great care should be to supply as much as possible the want of present , personal , direct , and sensible observation which we can no ...
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... Look at the inner meaning of their art and see what demons they were . You must look through the surface of American art , and see the inner diabolism of the symbolic meaning . Otherwise it is all mere childishness . That blue - eyed ...
... Look at the inner meaning of their art and see what demons they were . You must look through the surface of American art , and see the inner diabolism of the symbolic meaning . Otherwise it is all mere childishness . That blue - eyed ...
Page 409
... look for a man in his books , or we may look to the man for the explanation of his books . Taine's is the more dangerous way : to deduce the qualities of a work from a presupposition about the author . The whole Comédie humaine® follows ...
... look for a man in his books , or we may look to the man for the explanation of his books . Taine's is the more dangerous way : to deduce the qualities of a work from a presupposition about the author . The whole Comédie humaine® follows ...
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