English literature is made up mostly of the reading of the great authors, such as Milton and Shakespeare," "Gee!" exclaimed Dorian, "that would be great fun." "Fun?
just you try it.

Nobody reads these writers now only in school, where they have to.

But say, Dorian"-- she arose to inspect her work again.

"Have I too much purple in that bunch of salt-grass on the left?
What do you think ?" "I don't see any purple at all in the real grass," he said.
"There is purple there, however; but of course, you, not being an artist, cannot see it." She laughed a little for fear he might think her pronouncement harsh.
"What--what is an artist ?" "An artist is one who has learned to see more than other people can in the common things about them." The definition was not quite clear to him.

He had proved that he could see farther and clearer than she could when looking at trees or chipmunks.