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Page 125
... English lawns , in English houses ? Indeed , the main point of difference be- tween this spell - bound cultivated Russian society and the English variety is not in our favour . If Tchehov's intellectuals are half dead , the other half ...
... English lawns , in English houses ? Indeed , the main point of difference be- tween this spell - bound cultivated Russian society and the English variety is not in our favour . If Tchehov's intellectuals are half dead , the other half ...
Page 136
... English audience taken as a whole . If I stop to consider what is good and bad in this English preference for treating sexual passion , as they say , " seriously " , though nine times out of ten it means " sentimentally " , it may bring ...
... English audience taken as a whole . If I stop to consider what is good and bad in this English preference for treating sexual passion , as they say , " seriously " , though nine times out of ten it means " sentimentally " , it may bring ...
Page 137
... English sensi- bility , and it is the finest quality in it , is the im- mense value it sets upon tenderness in this con- nection — a word which cannot be translated by " tendresse " ; that has either a too playful and ironical or too ...
... English sensi- bility , and it is the finest quality in it , is the im- mense value it sets upon tenderness in this con- nection — a word which cannot be translated by " tendresse " ; that has either a too playful and ironical or too ...
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SHAKESPEARE | 5 |
SHYLOCKS PAST AND PRESENT January 24th | 15 |
Othello May 7th 1921 | 21 |
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