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Page vii
... play as a throng of passionate thoughts may cast up into the lucid spaces of one's mind : symbolical figures , grotesquely em- bodying what seems too multifold and fluctuating , also too unendurable , to be taken stock of . A European ...
... play as a throng of passionate thoughts may cast up into the lucid spaces of one's mind : symbolical figures , grotesquely em- bodying what seems too multifold and fluctuating , also too unendurable , to be taken stock of . A European ...
Page ix
... play needs no notes . It is the Notes , or what I have presented as notes , which need the play to help them to such readers as I want to get at . So , having insisted on including them , let me explain their nature and their real ...
... play needs no notes . It is the Notes , or what I have presented as notes , which need the play to help them to such readers as I want to get at . So , having insisted on including them , let me explain their nature and their real ...
Page x
... play , and gathered for other folk to distil in the so- called notes thereto . I will not call such thoughts weeds , unless by weeds we mean all hardy vegetation one does not like . I did not , in pre- war years , like thinking about ...
... play , and gathered for other folk to distil in the so- called notes thereto . I will not call such thoughts weeds , unless by weeds we mean all hardy vegetation one does not like . I did not , in pre- war years , like thinking about ...
Page xii
... play , in case some younger readers , or some readers whom the war has rejuvenated in its horrible Medea - cauldron , may , if the play have met their new views , find the same sort of thing more methodically thought out and more ...
... play , in case some younger readers , or some readers whom the war has rejuvenated in its horrible Medea - cauldron , may , if the play have met their new views , find the same sort of thing more methodically thought out and more ...
Page xvi
... play and in its notes , may make them easier to grasp by future readers less given to such surprised and distressed - may I again say it ? —exclamations disguised as queries . The reasons I have set forth against participation in this ...
... play and in its notes , may make them easier to grasp by future readers less given to such surprised and distressed - may I again say it ? —exclamations disguised as queries . The reasons I have set forth against participation in this ...
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