Hans Frost

Автор книги: Hugh Walpole id книги: 2150289 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 123,69 руб. (1,35$) Читать книгу Купить и скачать книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Языкознание Правообладатель и/или издательство: Bookwire Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 7 сентября 2021, 16:32 ISBN: 4064066354831 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

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Hugh Walpole

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Moreover, had he considered it, he would have seen that nothing but flattery and adoration came across his path. He did not consider it, because he did not want flattery and adoration. That is not to say that he did not care for an adroit compliment. Clever praise makes all men happy--a reassurance against the eternal fear of the hidden enemy--but he was at heart too simple, and by nature too generous, and intellectually too wise, to require incense.

He grew also intellectually lazy during these years. He ceased to have curiosity about his fellow human beings. Before this his interest in them had been a peculiar mixture of irony and tenderness, and in this same mixture he was himself involved save that in his view of himself his irony exceeded his tenderness.

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