Literary EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index. |
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Page 154
... Italy , in Germany , in Russia — wherever the whirling tem- pest of the Napoleonic policy might happen to carry him ... Italian cam- paign , he was in the army as a lieutenant of dragoons : the rest of his public service was spent in the ...
... Italy , in Germany , in Russia — wherever the whirling tem- pest of the Napoleonic policy might happen to carry him ... Italian cam- paign , he was in the army as a lieutenant of dragoons : the rest of his public service was spent in the ...
Page 169
... Italy , and , so soon as he was given his Italian consulate , he was usually to be found in Paris . As his life advanced he grew more and more wayward , capricious , and eccentric . He indulged in queer mystifications , covering his ...
... Italy , and , so soon as he was given his Italian consulate , he was usually to be found in Paris . As his life advanced he grew more and more wayward , capricious , and eccentric . He indulged in queer mystifications , covering his ...
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... Italian Risorgimento , of which he is an enthusiastic devotee . But , even here , the rule seems to apply ; one ... Italy he calmly noted in his diary that someone he had met had a face ' almost as stupid as the Duke of Wellington's ...
... Italian Risorgimento , of which he is an enthusiastic devotee . But , even here , the rule seems to apply ; one ... Italy he calmly noted in his diary that someone he had met had a face ' almost as stupid as the Duke of Wellington's ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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