Aesthetic as Science of Expression, and General Linguistic, Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce (Classic Reprint)

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N 0 one could have been further removed than my self, as I turned over at Naples the pages of La Crz'tz'ea, from any idea that I was nearing the solution of the problem of Art. All my youth it had haunted me. As an undergraduate at Oxford I had caught the exquisite cadence of Walter Pater's speech, as it came from his very lips, or rose like the perfume of some exotic ﬂower from the ribbed pages of the Renaissance.

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