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...summarized in the words, "Art" is the emphazing one truth out of many, or one feature or manifestations of a complex truth", and M. Zola himself has justified his method. They are, he says, necessary to his purpose, which is the discovery of truth, and that canst and alone. Greek statues would be indecent if at all clothed. Their nudity, however, only shocks the prudes, and to M. Zola his critics have all the frivolous weakness of prudery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Harvard Monthly." | 6/24/1887 | See Source »

Tutor in German: "No, that is wholly wrong. Well, translate the next stanza." Student (translating): "I have failed. Mark me well if thou canst." - [Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

...Thou canst never find a mate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...Canst thou not come at my call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCENE TAKEN FROM THE NEW HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...Dick! thou really canst not know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE EPISODE IN TWO PARTS. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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