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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... eye the remaining particle of futurity , are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world , and cannot ... eyes . The entire effect depends upon the employment of a rhythmical complexity and subtlety which is utterly alien ...
... eye the remaining particle of futurity , are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world , and cannot ... eyes . The entire effect depends upon the employment of a rhythmical complexity and subtlety which is utterly alien ...
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... eyes - then why not say so ? Really Blake , as politicians say , ' cannot have it both ways . ' But of course , his ... eye ' : With my inward Eye , ' tis an old Man grey , With my outward , a Thistle across my way It was to the ...
... eyes - then why not say so ? Really Blake , as politicians say , ' cannot have it both ways . ' But of course , his ... eye ' : With my inward Eye , ' tis an old Man grey , With my outward , a Thistle across my way It was to the ...
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... eyes beneath lids that quiver with a nervous affection ; look at the forehead , lofty , thoroughly well formed ; the expressive mouth , eloquent of numberless torments , of abysmal melan- choly , of infinite compassion and envy ! -An ...
... eyes beneath lids that quiver with a nervous affection ; look at the forehead , lofty , thoroughly well formed ; the expressive mouth , eloquent of numberless torments , of abysmal melan- choly , of infinite compassion and envy ! -An ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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