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... Horace Walpole , there was nothing at all strange about the world ; it was charming , it was disgusting , it was ridiculous , and it was just what one might have expected . In such a world , why should poetry , more than anything else ...
... Horace Walpole , there was nothing at all strange about the world ; it was charming , it was disgusting , it was ridiculous , and it was just what one might have expected . In such a world , why should poetry , more than anything else ...
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... Horace Walpole , for in- stance , or Gray , or Byron . Since the seventeenth century , the art of letter - writing has turned aside altogether from the affairs of practical life , from the business of ethical exhorta- tion , and from ...
... Horace Walpole , for in- stance , or Gray , or Byron . Since the seventeenth century , the art of letter - writing has turned aside altogether from the affairs of practical life , from the business of ethical exhorta- tion , and from ...
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Lytton Strachey. IV HORACE WALPOLE THE letter - writing of the eighteenth century reaches its climax in the correspondence of Horace Walpole . The vast period of time which they cover , the immense variety of topics with which they deal ...
Lytton Strachey. IV HORACE WALPOLE THE letter - writing of the eighteenth century reaches its climax in the correspondence of Horace Walpole . The vast period of time which they cover , the immense variety of topics with which they deal ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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