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... Macaulay more than seventy years since . Mr. Palmer's outspoken and interesting attempt to vindicate the impeached dramatists , and incidentally to administer a wigging to Macaulay in his turn , shows , I think , the way in which the ...
... Macaulay more than seventy years since . Mr. Palmer's outspoken and interesting attempt to vindicate the impeached dramatists , and incidentally to administer a wigging to Macaulay in his turn , shows , I think , the way in which the ...
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... Macaulay , however , would not have benefited by the prescription , for he was a hopeless case . The tonic pages of ... Macaulay's writing - its hardness of outline , its slightly hollow ring - is so character- istic that it is difficult ...
... Macaulay , however , would not have benefited by the prescription , for he was a hopeless case . The tonic pages of ... Macaulay's writing - its hardness of outline , its slightly hollow ring - is so character- istic that it is difficult ...
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... Macaulay . In that he is a genius . When it comes to telling a story , his faults disappear or change into virtues . Narrowness becomes clarity , and crudity turns into force . The rhetoric of the style , from being the ornament of ...
... Macaulay . In that he is a genius . When it comes to telling a story , his faults disappear or change into virtues . Narrowness becomes clarity , and crudity turns into force . The rhetoric of the style , from being the ornament of ...
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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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