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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... masters of prose . A great artist can invest a common word with a miraculous significance can suddenly turn a halfpenny into a five - pound note . He can do more ; he can bring back a word that has been dead for centuries into the life ...
... masters of prose . A great artist can invest a common word with a miraculous significance can suddenly turn a halfpenny into a five - pound note . He can do more ; he can bring back a word that has been dead for centuries into the life ...
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... Master Latimer spake in this manner : ' Be of good comfort , Master Ridley , and play the man . We shall this day light such a candle , by God's grace , in England , as I trust shall never be put out . ' Nothing could be better adapted ...
... Master Latimer spake in this manner : ' Be of good comfort , Master Ridley , and play the man . We shall this day light such a candle , by God's grace , in England , as I trust shall never be put out . ' Nothing could be better adapted ...
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... masters . ' We must ' lodge well in our minds ' lines and ex- pressions of the great masters - short passages , even single lines will serve our turn quite sufficiently ' - and these we shall ' find ' an infallible touchstone ' for ...
... masters . ' We must ' lodge well in our minds ' lines and ex- pressions of the great masters - short passages , even single lines will serve our turn quite sufficiently ' - and these we shall ' find ' an infallible touchstone ' for ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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