The FountainThe text is a novel set in Holland during the first World War. The main characters are a British officer, a Dutch aristocrat and his British stepdaughter who is married to a German officer. It was a winner of the 1932 Hawthornden Prize. |
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Page 87
... become the empty rhetoric of a criticism too lazy to define its pleasures and dis- tinguish their sources . A student of history , he thought , must beware of supposing that the men of the past are arraigned before him for his approval ...
... become the empty rhetoric of a criticism too lazy to define its pleasures and dis- tinguish their sources . A student of history , he thought , must beware of supposing that the men of the past are arraigned before him for his approval ...
Page 350
... become real ? The fate of Adam and Eve when they were driven out of Paradise , " Ramsdell said . " Not exceptional , Julie . " She smiled . " No. Not exceptional . That doesn't make it easier . . . . And the odd thing is that the world ...
... become real ? The fate of Adam and Eve when they were driven out of Paradise , " Ramsdell said . " Not exceptional , Julie . " She smiled . " No. Not exceptional . That doesn't make it easier . . . . And the odd thing is that the world ...
Page 358
... become the en- forcement and cruel accent of his desolation , so were all his former delights of sense and thought changed to serpents about him ; and beyond the range of his will - as though he were indeed possessed by a succuba ...
... become the en- forcement and cruel accent of his desolation , so were all his former delights of sense and thought changed to serpents about him ; and beyond the range of his will - as though he were indeed possessed by a succuba ...
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