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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: of his colour sense:
'A mole cinque-spotted like the crimson drops
I' the bottom of a cowslip.' (8)
It is very curious, very artificial, and not worth while to
analyse at length: I leave it to the reader. But before I
turn my back on Shakespeare, I should like to quote a
passage, for my own pleasure, and for a very model of every
technical art:
But in the wind and tempest of her frown,
W. P. V. (9) F. (st) (ow)
Distinction with a loud and powerful fan,
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