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  • And The Egoist is a satire; so much must be allowed; but it is a satire of a singular quality, which tells you nothing of that obvious mote, which is engaged from first to last with that invisible beam.

    Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The Egoist is our fountain-head, primeval man: the primitive is born again, the elemental reconstituted.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The Egoist is our fountain-head, primeval man: the primitive is born again, the elemental reconstituted.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • Consider him indulgently: the Egoist is the Son of Himself.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • Consider him indulgently: the Egoist is the Son of Himself.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Mr. Pound has more recently insisted, in a series of articles on the work of Arnold Dolmetsch, in the "Egoist," on the importance of a study of music for the poet.

    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry 1926

  • (M. Jean de Bosschere, whose French is translated in the "Egoist," has already called attention to the fact that Pound was the first writer in English to use five Provençal forms.)

    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry 1926

  • Only Descartes (cogito ergo sum, and all that) and Goethe (who planned a novel entitled The Egoist, but I don’t know nearly enough about Goethe) have real claim to priority.

    Archive 2007-04-01 James Killus 2007

  • Only Descartes (cogito ergo sum, and all that) and Goethe (who planned a novel entitled The Egoist, but I don’t know nearly enough about Goethe) have real claim to priority.

    Max Headroom James Killus 2007

  • FIRST OF THE NOTES ON JAMES JOYCE, "Egoist," January, 1914.

    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry 1926

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