The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 120A. Constable, 1864 |
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Page 44
... writer meant to produce that idea in their mind , or in the mind of any human being ; it is , in fact , an impossible meaning ... write as if he was writing to idiots ; a perfectly just remark , and the only proper answer to give to such ...
... writer meant to produce that idea in their mind , or in the mind of any human being ; it is , in fact , an impossible meaning ... write as if he was writing to idiots ; a perfectly just remark , and the only proper answer to give to such ...
Page 49
... write like a madman , but easy enough to ' write like a fool ; ' and certain novelists may usefully be re- minded that it is possible to write what is not English without writing what is Parisian . But a still worse distortion than even ...
... write like a madman , but easy enough to ' write like a fool ; ' and certain novelists may usefully be re- minded that it is possible to write what is not English without writing what is Parisian . But a still worse distortion than even ...
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... write ; in Edinburgh , a mother , allured by the desire to answer the letters her children had sent her since the establishment of cheap postage , had actually begun to acquire the art of writing at the age of forty - five , and was ...
... write ; in Edinburgh , a mother , allured by the desire to answer the letters her children had sent her since the establishment of cheap postage , had actually begun to acquire the art of writing at the age of forty - five , and was ...
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