On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914

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and drawings, and others vocally, so it is with the arts above mentio

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motion and action, by

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ells of sleep so necessary for his first growth. By and by, when he has found his legs, he begins to skip, and even before he has found articulate speech, to croon for himself. Pass a stage, and you find him importing speech, drama, dance, incantation

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