The Quotable Woman, 1800-onElaine Partnow Anchor Books, 1978 - 542 pages |
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Page 79
... sense is a more ex- quisite thing than what we may call the body of the sense , as developed to earthly con- sciousness . Ibid . , Ch . 11 7 The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life , whether the case be one of ...
... sense is a more ex- quisite thing than what we may call the body of the sense , as developed to earthly con- sciousness . Ibid . , Ch . 11 7 The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life , whether the case be one of ...
Page 184
... senses . Sight goes . They have no time to look at pictures . Sound goes . They have no time to listen to music . Speech goes . They have no time for conversation . They lose their sense of proportion - the relations between one thing ...
... senses . Sight goes . They have no time to look at pictures . Sound goes . They have no time to listen to music . Speech goes . They have no time for conversation . They lose their sense of proportion - the relations between one thing ...
Page 198
... sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism : but this had been instinc- tive and incomplete , and so it proved to be in Mark Twain .... He was primarily a raconteur . ... He was never the conscious artist ...
... sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism : but this had been instinc- tive and incomplete , and so it proved to be in Mark Twain .... He was primarily a raconteur . ... He was never the conscious artist ...
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