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... thought that I had recognized an aura of bonté in the learned Jesuit priest ; and , since those days , I have noticed the same quality in some very different men and women , among them Roger Fry , to whom Virginia Woolf , while she was ...
... thought that I had recognized an aura of bonté in the learned Jesuit priest ; and , since those days , I have noticed the same quality in some very different men and women , among them Roger Fry , to whom Virginia Woolf , while she was ...
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... thought of him , she as- sured Vanessa Bell , as ' the only civilized man I have ever met ' ; had Bloomsbury ' produced only Roger , it would be on a par with Athens at its prime ' . If a single man can change the taste of his period ...
... thought of him , she as- sured Vanessa Bell , as ' the only civilized man I have ever met ' ; had Bloomsbury ' produced only Roger , it would be on a par with Athens at its prime ' . If a single man can change the taste of his period ...
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Contemporary Portraits Peter Quennell. mirers thought , an entirely new realm of forms and colours and sensations . Mallarmé reverenced the word ; its magic , he believed , should be allowed to overrule the poet's personal initiative ...
Contemporary Portraits Peter Quennell. mirers thought , an entirely new realm of forms and colours and sensations . Mallarmé reverenced the word ; its magic , he believed , should be allowed to overrule the poet's personal initiative ...
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