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“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.”
“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ”
“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”
“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”
“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and...”
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be t...”
“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recogniz...”