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 51
... hands of Mr. Palmer some rather grudging commendation . What Vanbrugh gives us is not the hot , confused and crowded ... hand to , from the writing of comedies to the building of castles . Luckily , too , he was able to keep his ...
... hands of Mr. Palmer some rather grudging commendation . What Vanbrugh gives us is not the hot , confused and crowded ... hand to , from the writing of comedies to the building of castles . Luckily , too , he was able to keep his ...
Page 141
... hand ? and what dread feet ? So Blake engraved the verse ; and , as Mr. Sampson points out , ' the terrible , compressed force ' of the final line vanishes to nothing in the ' languid punctuation ' of subsequent editions : - ' What dread ...
... hand ? and what dread feet ? So Blake engraved the verse ; and , as Mr. Sampson points out , ' the terrible , compressed force ' of the final line vanishes to nothing in the ' languid punctuation ' of subsequent editions : - ' What dread ...
Page 257
... hand , he drummed away on carving and blowing one's nose ; and on the other , he per- petually attempted to ... hands of Philip Stanhope . No young man , before or since , was ever more carefully trained in the way that he should go ...
... hand , he drummed away on carving and blowing one's nose ; and on the other , he per- petually attempted to ... hands of Philip Stanhope . No young man , before or since , was ever more carefully trained in the way that he should go ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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