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... artist at odds with a practical world . The problem is posed as to whether the artist is to be bound by the moral conventions , to submit himself to the laws which govern the rest of humanity , or whether he is to create a world for ...
... artist at odds with a practical world . The problem is posed as to whether the artist is to be bound by the moral conventions , to submit himself to the laws which govern the rest of humanity , or whether he is to create a world for ...
Page 386
... artist , allows himself to be thought dead . His valet , Albert Shawn , is buried with full honors in Westminster Abbey in his name , and the artist takes lodgings in Putney and leads a tranquil existence with Janet Cannot . Unfor ...
... artist , allows himself to be thought dead . His valet , Albert Shawn , is buried with full honors in Westminster Abbey in his name , and the artist takes lodgings in Putney and leads a tranquil existence with Janet Cannot . Unfor ...
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... artistic aspirations and nobility . For centuries it has constituted the principal form of entertainment among the ... artist influenced by Buddhistic teaching , man himself is but small part of nature — a part of it only in the same ...
... artistic aspirations and nobility . For centuries it has constituted the principal form of entertainment among the ... artist influenced by Buddhistic teaching , man himself is but small part of nature — a part of it only in the same ...
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