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Page vii
... first year of the war ; and published that same Christmas as a picture book in collaboration with Mr. Maxwell Armfield . It was in its origin merely such an extemporized shadow - play as a throng of passionate thoughts may cast up into ...
... first year of the war ; and published that same Christmas as a picture book in collaboration with Mr. Maxwell Armfield . It was in its origin merely such an extemporized shadow - play as a throng of passionate thoughts may cast up into ...
Page viii
... first answer to myself was yes . For so indeed it seemed when I wrote the first draft of that epilogue in the second year of the war . But the third and the fourth ended , and with constant increase of the unimaginable horrors and ...
... first answer to myself was yes . For so indeed it seemed when I wrote the first draft of that epilogue in the second year of the war . But the third and the fourth ended , and with constant increase of the unimaginable horrors and ...
Page ix
... first and kindest literary adviser I ever had - Mr . Edward Garnett , has warned me that this second half is de trop , may even be voted a bore . The play , he says , can stand by itself , needs no elucidations . I should hope not ...
... first and kindest literary adviser I ever had - Mr . Edward Garnett , has warned me that this second half is de trop , may even be voted a bore . The play , he says , can stand by itself , needs no elucidations . I should hope not ...
Page xvi
... of participation , are not the reason , in the sense of the cause , of my inability thus to take part . Indeed , paradox though it sounds at first , I have come by f these views of the war just because I have xvi SATAN THE WASTER.
... of participation , are not the reason , in the sense of the cause , of my inability thus to take part . Indeed , paradox though it sounds at first , I have come by f these views of the war just because I have xvi SATAN THE WASTER.
Page xxii
... first thing they become aware of is that , in the Kaiser's symbolic words , they did not want it . And feeling certain that it was not of their willing , they inevitably lay hold of the belief that the other party must have wanted and ...
... first thing they become aware of is that , in the Kaiser's symbolic words , they did not want it . And feeling certain that it was not of their willing , they inevitably lay hold of the belief that the other party must have wanted and ...
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