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 103
... Miss Lee , whose English is never good , and who writes , on p . 135 , ' Who would believe that others exist who pride themselves in not thinking like anyone else thinks ? ' The actual translation , too , is often unfortu- nately ...
... Miss Lee , whose English is never good , and who writes , on p . 135 , ' Who would believe that others exist who pride themselves in not thinking like anyone else thinks ? ' The actual translation , too , is often unfortu- nately ...
Page 104
... Miss Lee's translation , ' with much ado gathers the exquisite plum ' ; in La Bruyère ' il cueille artistement cette prune exquise ' : this is exactly how Miss Lee should have treated her exquisite original . But La Bruyère was not only ...
... Miss Lee's translation , ' with much ado gathers the exquisite plum ' ; in La Bruyère ' il cueille artistement cette prune exquise ' : this is exactly how Miss Lee should have treated her exquisite original . But La Bruyère was not only ...
Page 123
... Miss Burney's characters , to use Macaulay's phrase , are in reality nothing but ' humours , ' and not characters at all ; and immediately this is recognised , immediately ' humours ' is substituted for ' characters ' in Burke's ...
... Miss Burney's characters , to use Macaulay's phrase , are in reality nothing but ' humours , ' and not characters at all ; and immediately this is recognised , immediately ' humours ' is substituted for ' characters ' in Burke'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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