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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... humour would be as fallacious as to suppose that Shakespeare had none because he had written Othello . Indeed , just as a perspicacious reader , unacquainted with the rest of Shakespeare , might infer from the massive breadth and the ...
... humour would be as fallacious as to suppose that Shakespeare had none because he had written Othello . Indeed , just as a perspicacious reader , unacquainted with the rest of Shakespeare , might infer from the massive breadth and the ...
Page 217
... humour at all . And the reason for this is clear . Tolstoy is one of those writers who present their imaginary world ... humour . An author with a sense of humour puts , as it were , a stiff stout walking - stick into the hand of his ...
... humour at all . And the reason for this is clear . Tolstoy is one of those writers who present their imaginary world ... humour . An author with a sense of humour puts , as it were , a stiff stout walking - stick into the hand of his ...
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... humour upon my approach , though provoked by a ? Have you so much good - nature as to endeavour by soft words to smooth any rugged humour occasioned by the cross accidents of life ? Shall the place wher- ever your husband is thrown be ...
... humour upon my approach , though provoked by a ? Have you so much good - nature as to endeavour by soft words to smooth any rugged humour occasioned by the cross accidents of life ? Shall the place wher- ever your husband is thrown be ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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